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Where Do We Come From, Where Are We, Where Are We Going?
28" x 15" Fine Art Print
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Price: $181.99
Sunflowers, 1901
28" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $224.99
The Escape, The Ford, 1901
27" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $222.99
Self Portrait with the Yellow Christ, 1890
27" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $218.99
Manao Tupapau
22" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $178.99
Still Life with Fruit, Brittany
20" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $165.99
Pandanus, 1891
22" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $178.99
Nave Nave Mahana
29" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $229.99
The Seine at the Pont d'Iena, Winter, 1875
29" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $228.99
The Schuffenecker Family
27" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $222.99
Women of Tahiti, On the Beach, 1891
28" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $227.99
Brittany Landscape: the David Mill, 1894
28" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $223.99
And the Gold of their Bodies, 1901
26" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $215.99
Te Tiare Farani
28" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $227.99
Be Be (The Nativity), 1896
26" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $214.99
Fatata te Miti
29" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $228.99
Flowers and a Japanese Print, 1889
28" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $245.99
Breton village under snow, 1894
29" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $230.99
Portrait of Achille Granchi Taylor, 1885
27" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $221.99
Self Portrait, Les Miserables,1888
27" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $221.99
The Flight, 1902
27" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $221.99
Day of God, 1894
22" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $178.99
Painting, 1897
28" x 15" Fine Art Print
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Price: $181.99
Breton Girls, 1888
22" x 19" Fine Art Print
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Price: $177.99
Girl Herding Pigs, 1889
20" x 18" Fine Art Print
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Price: $166.99
Vase of Flowers, 1896
19" x 17" Fine Art Print
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Price: $156.99
Reiter Am Strand (Cavaliers Sur La Plage), 1902
18" x 17" Fine Art Print
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Price: $155.99
Arearea (The Red Dog), 1892
28" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $245.99
Van Gogh painting Sunflowers, 1888
27" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $221.99
Rupe Rupe (Fruit Gathering), 1899
29" x 22" Fine Art Print
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Price: $225.99
Les Parau Parau
29" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $228.99
Seaweed Gatherers, 1889
29" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $229.99
Four Breton Women, 1886
28" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $225.99
Te Arii Vahine
29" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $227.99
Garden under Snow, 1879
26" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $215.99
Old Women of Arles, 1888
28" x 23" Fine Art Print
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Price: $223.99
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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.