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Bathers, 19th Century
24" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $254.99
A Suburban Street, 1884
25" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $243.99
Self Portrait, 1896
24" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $230.99
Skaters, 1884-85
25" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $261.99
Gauguin Behind an Easel
25" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $256.99
Yellow Christ
24" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $252.99
Barbarian Poems, 1896
23" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $245.99
Landscape with Peacocks, 1892
24" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $239.99
Maternity, 1899
24" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $233.99
Tahiti, 19th Century
23" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $249.99
Farm at Osny
23" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $246.99
Breton Women
24" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $254.99
Girl with fan, 1902
24" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $236.99
Contes Barbares, 1902
22" x 30" Fine Art Print
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Price: $234.99
The Man with an Axe, 1891
24" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $236.99
Self Portrait, 1890
24" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $233.99
Still Life with a Mandolin, 1885
24" x 27" Fine Art Print
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Price: $228.99
Breton Boys Bathing, 1888
24" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $230.99
The Poor Fisherman, 1896
25" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $243.99
Eiaha Ohipa, detail - nude
24" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $235.99
Bouquet, 1884
24" x 27" Fine Art Print
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Price: $230.99
Two Women from Tahiti
23" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $249.99
Reverie, 1891
22" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $245.99
Belle Angele, 1889
23" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $249.99
Mahana Ma'a 1892
19" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $169.99
Woman Holding a Fruit, Where Are You Going
24" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $254.99
Road in Rouen II, 1885
22" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $243.99
Guitar Player, 1894
23" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $248.99
When You Hear
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $239.99
Woman with Mango
20" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $175.99
Piti Tiena, 1892
24" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $240.99
Landscape in Tahiti 1892
20" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $172.99
The White Horse, 1898
22" x 30" Fine Art Print
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Price: $229.99
Landscape
24" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $240.99
The Alyscamps, Arles, 1888
24" x 29" Fine Art Print
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Price: $234.99
Vairaumati Tei Oa
24" x 30" Fine Art Print
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Price: $237.99
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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.