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Faa Iheihe
27" x 13" Fine Art Print
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Price: $170.99
Te Rerioa
21" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $172.99
Bathers at Tahiti, 1897
19" x 17" Fine Art Print
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Price: $159.99
Still life with Oranges, 1881
28" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $228.99
The Meal (The Bananas), 1891
26" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $221.99
Aha oe Feii (Are You Jealous), 1892
27" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $225.99
A Canoe
28" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $228.99
Swineherd, 1888
21" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $170.99
Vase of Flowers, 1896
17" x 16" Fine Art Print
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Price: $149.99
Agony in the Garden, 1889
16" x 14" Fine Art Print
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Price: $135.99
Vairumati, 1897
27" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $222.99
Van Gogh painting Sunflowers, 1888
26" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $219.99
Taperaa Mahana, 1892
28" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $226.99
Pandanus, 1891
21" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $172.99
A Vase of Flowers, 1896
16" x 14" Fine Art Print
Price: $157.99
Four Breton Women, 1886
27" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $223.99
Women of Tahiti, On the Beach, 1891
27" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $225.99
Te Arii Vahine
28" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $225.99
Eiaha Ohipa , 1896
25" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $213.99
Fatata te Miti
28" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $226.99
Haymaking in Brittany, 1888
27" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $221.99
Scene from Tahitian Life, 1896
28" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $228.99
Three Tahitian Women against a Yellow Background, 1899
23" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $206.99
Still Life with Fruit, 1888
28" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $227.99
Portrait of Achille Granchi Taylor, 1885
26" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $219.99
The Offering, 1902
24" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $213.99
Landscape near Pont-Aven, 1888
26" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $221.99
Eiaha Ohipa, detail
28" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $228.99
At the Window, 1882
26" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $216.99
Martinique Landscape (detail)
20" x 17" Fine Art Print
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Price: $162.99
Return from the Harvest
19" x 17" Fine Art Print
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Price: $159.99
Day of God, 1894
21" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $172.99
Painting, 1897
27" x 14" Fine Art Print
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Price: $174.99
Martinique, 1887
21" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $171.99
Breton Girls, 1888
21" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $171.99
Manao Tupapau
21" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $172.99
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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.