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Piti Tiena, 1892
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Arearea (The Red Dog), 1892
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Vairumati, 1897
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Maternity, 1899
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Cafe at Arles, 1888
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Nave Nave Mahana
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Nafea Faaipoipo
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Horseman on the Beach
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $25.99
Barbarian Poems, 1896
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Van Gogh painting Sunflowers, 1888
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Taperaa Mahana, 1892
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Still life with Oranges, 1881
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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The Man with an Axe, 1891
21" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Te Tiare Farani
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Still Life with a Fan, c.1889
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Breton Peasants, 1894
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Self Portrait with the Yellow Christ, 1890
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Ta Matete
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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At the Window, 1882
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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When You Hear
19" x 28" Fine Art Print
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Price: $56.99
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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.