Quotation
But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.
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Biographical
Born: Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin on June 7, 1848 in Paris, France. A very important postimpressionist painter, whose work helped provide the basis of modern art. A successful stockbroker, Gauguin became a collector and amateur painter. By 1884 Gauguin had moved with his family to Copenhagen, where he unsuccessfully pursued a business career. Driven to paint full-time, he returned to Paris in 1885, leaving his family in Denmark. Without adequate subsistence, his wife and children were forced to return to her family. Like so many great minds, in particular his friend Vincent Van Gogh with whom he spent four famous months together in Arles painting, Paul Gauguin suffered from bouts of depression and at one time attempted suicide. In 1891, financially destitute, he sailed to the Tropics to escape European civilization and "everything that is artificial and conventional.
He remained first in Tahiti and later in the Marquesas Islands for most of the rest of his life, returning to France one time only. Gauguin's bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the fauvist style of the 20th-century. (see Fauvism) He died on May 9, 1903 and is buried in the Altuona Cemetery, Altuona, Hiva-Oa, Iles Marguises, French Polynesia.
Some of his approximate 150 significant works are:
The Seine in Paris between the Pont d'lena and the Pont de Grenelle; Haere Mai; In the Vanilla Grove, Man and Horse; Study of a Nude. Suzanne Sewing; Mandolina and Flowers; Bouquet; Washerwomen at Pont-Aven; At the Pond; Night Cafe at Arles; Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers; The Alyscamps; The Yellow Christ; La Belle Angele (Portrait of Madame Satre); Tahitian Women, or On the Beach; Spirit of the Dead Watching; Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Paul Gauguin.]
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