PAUL GAUGUIN

7 June 1846, Paris, France

8 May 1903, Atuina, French Polynesia

Post impressionist painter who became popular only after his death.

He was a complete artist. Painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist and writer.

Gauguin spent three years as a pilot assistant in the merchant marine and when he returned to Paris he worked as a stockbroker.

In 1882, with the stock market crashed, he decided to become a full time painter.

In 1887 he visited Panama and spent a few months in the Martinique islands.

In 1890 he visited Tahiti and stayed for 3 year until he returned to France continuing to paint on Tahitian subjects.

He was not a lucky and happy man. He had 3 children but the first one died with pneumonia, the second one of a blood infection and the third one only a few days after his birth, on Christmas day.

But, besides all that, he was and stays for ever a great master.

"Dans les vagues", 1889

"Bathers at Dieppe", 1885

"Lavaderas de Arles"

 "La orana Maria"

"Where do we come from", 1897

"O dia dos deuses", 1894

"Holding a fruit"

"Sacred Spring"

"Cavaliers sur la plage", 1902

"A refeição"