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The Beautiful Angel
16" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $156.99
Still Life with Fruit, Brittany
12" x 10" Fine Art Print
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Price: $106.99
Washerwomen at Pont-Aven, 1886
20" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $155.99
Landscape
16" x 21" Fine Art Print
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Price: $161.99
Where Do We Come From, Where Are We, Where Are We Going?
20" x 7" Fine Art Print
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Price: $135.99
The Seine at the Pont d'Iena, Winter, 1875
22" x 15" Fine Art Print
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Price: $161.99
The Wooden Gate
16" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $156.99
And the Gold of their Bodies, 1901
18" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $148.99
Eiaha Ohipa , 1896
18" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $148.99
Be Be (The Nativity), 1896
18" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $147.99
The Escape, The Ford, 1901
20" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $154.99
Two Tahitian Women on the Beach, 1891
15" x 21" Fine Art Print
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Price: $158.99
Pont Aven
10" x 15" Fine Art Print
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Price: $113.99
Two Women from Tahiti
10" x 13" Fine Art Print
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Price: $110.99
Nave Nave Moe (The Sacred Spring Sweet Dreams)
13" x 10" Fine Art Print
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Price: $110.99
Painting, 1897
20" x 7" Fine Art Print
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Price: $134.99
Girl Herding Pigs, 1889
12" x 10" Fine Art Print
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Price: $107.99
Vahine No Te Tiare (Woman with a Flower), 1891
10" x 15" Fine Art Print
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Price: $116.99
Guitar Player, 1894
10" x 13" Fine Art Print
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Price: $110.99
Le Vallon, 1892
15" x 9" Fine Art Print
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Price: $113.99
Agony in the Garden, 1889
10" x 8" Fine Art Print
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Price: $88.99
Landscape
11" x 13" Fine Art Print
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Price: $113.99
Landscape with Peacocks, 1892
16" x 21" Fine Art Print
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Price: $161.99
Landscape at Pont Aven, 1888
20" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $155.99
Arearea (The Red Dog), 1892
20" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $177.99
Tahiti, 19th Century
11" x 14" Fine Art Print
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Price: $113.99
Van Gogh painting Sunflowers, 1888
19" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $153.99
Les Parau Parau
21" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $160.99
Maternity, 1899
16" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $157.99
Farm at Osny
10" x 13" Fine Art Print
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Price: $109.99
Breton Women
11" x 14" Fine Art Print
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Price: $117.99
Cafe at Arles, 1888
20" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $155.99
Contes Barbares, 1902
14" x 21" Fine Art Print
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Price: $157.99
The Alyscamps, Arles, 1888
16" x 21" Fine Art Print
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Price: $150.99
The Schuffenecker Family
20" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $154.99
Vairaumati Tei Oa
15" x 21" Fine Art Print
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Price: $161.99
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The son of a French journalist and a Peruvian Creole, Gauguin was raised in Lima, joined the merchant navy in 1865, and in 1872 began a successful career as a stockbroker in Paris. It was there that he experienced his first Impressionist's exhibit that captivated him and confirmed his desire to become a painter.
He drew and painted landscapes in his leisure time, but it was his meeting in 1877 with Camille Pissarro, who told him he should look for the nature that suits your temperament, that persuaded him to exhibit with the Impressionists. He abandoned his business career and his family, frequently changed homes while living on little money, and devoted himself entirely to painting. He produced a style he called "Synthetism," a symbolic representation of nature using massive simplified forms and large, bright planes of color, and his work increasingly took on a more primitive quality.
In fact, Gauguin's art has all the appearance of a flight from civilization; and it was in Tahiti that he discovered the flat forms, vibrant colors and untamed nature of primitive art that he transferred, with absolute sincerity, to canvas.