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Still Life with Fruit, Brittany
12" x 10" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Washerwomen at Pont-Aven, 1886
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Where Do We Come From, Where Are We, Where Are We Going?
20" x 7" Fine Art Print
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Price: $19.99
The Seine at the Pont d'Iena, Winter, 1875
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $19.99
And the Gold of their Bodies, 1901
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $19.99
Eiaha Ohipa , 1896
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Be Be (The Nativity), 1896
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
The Escape, The Ford, 1901
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Nave Nave Moe (The Sacred Spring Sweet Dreams)
13" x 10" Fine Art Print
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Price: $19.99
Painting, 1897
20" x 7" Fine Art Print
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Girl Herding Pigs, 1889
12" x 10" Fine Art Print
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Le Vallon, 1892
15" x 9" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Agony in the Garden, 1889
10" x 8" Fine Art Print
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Price: $13.99
Landscape at Pont Aven, 1888
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $19.99
Arearea (The Red Dog), 1892
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $45.99
Van Gogh painting Sunflowers, 1888
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Les Parau Parau
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Cafe at Arles, 1888
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
The Schuffenecker Family
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Te Arii Vahine
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Brittany Landscape: the David Mill, 1894
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Garden under Snow, 1879
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Te Tiare Farani
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Sunflowers, 1901
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Fatata te Miti
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Breton village under snow, 1894
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Still Life with a Fan, c.1889
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Breton Peasants, 1894
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Scene from Tahitian Life, 1896
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Three Tahitian Women against a Yellow Background, 1899
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Ta Matete
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
The Flight, 1902
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Eiaha Ohipa, detail
24" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $18.99
Martinique Landscape (detail)
13" x 10" Fine Art Print
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Price: $19.99
Beach at Le Pouldu
14" x 11" Fine Art Print
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Price: $19.99
Day of God, 1894
15" x 11" Fine Art Print
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Price: $20.99
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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.