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Riders on the Beach, 1902
19" x 17" Fine Art Print
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Price: $159.99
Piti Tiena, 1892
22" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $227.99
Girl with fan, 1902
22" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $226.99
Vairaumati Tei Oa
22" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $226.99
Women of Tahiti, On the Beach, 1891
27" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $224.99
Flowers and a Japanese Print, 1889
26" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $242.99
The Great Buddha, 1899
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $223.99
Portrait of a Young Woman, 1886
22" x 26" Fine Art Print
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Price: $218.99
A Walk by the Sea, 1902
22" x 26" Fine Art Print
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Price: $220.99
Nave Nave Moe (The Sacred Spring Sweet Dreams)
20" x 17" Fine Art Print
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Price: $162.99
Maternity, 1899
22" x 27" Fine Art Print
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Price: $223.99
Te Tiare Farani
27" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $224.99
Fatata te Miti
28" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $225.99
Self portrait, 1902
19" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $196.99
Still Life with a Fan, c.1889
26" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $216.99
Breton Peasants, 1894
28" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $227.99
Tropical Landscape, Martinique, 1887
28" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $227.99
The Flight, 1902
26" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $218.99
Landscape near Pont-Aven, 1888
26" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $220.99
Woman Holding a Fruit, Where Are You Going
17" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $159.99
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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.