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Landscape at Pont Aven, 1888
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Arearea (The Red Dog), 1892
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $57.99
Vase of Flowers
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $27.99
Vairumati, 1897
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $27.99
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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Price: $27.99
Pandanus, 1891
26" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $56.99
Faa Iheihe
28" x 9" Fine Art Print
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Price: $35.99
Still Life with Fruit, Brittany
25" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $54.99
Still life with Oranges, 1881
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Rupe Rupe (Fruit Gathering), 1899
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Washerwomen at Pont-Aven, 1886
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Les Parau Parau
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Where Do We Come From, Where Are We, Where Are We Going?
25" x 9" Fine Art Print
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Price: $32.99
Cafe at Arles, 1888
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Seaweed Gatherers, 1889
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Nave Nave Mahana
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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The Seine at the Pont d'Iena, Winter, 1875
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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The Schuffenecker Family
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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The Meal (The Bananas), 1891
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Four Breton Women, 1886
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Portrait of Pissarro by Gauguin and Portrait of Gauguin by Pissarro
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Women of Tahiti, On the Beach, 1891
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Yellow Haystacks, 1889
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Te Arii Vahine
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Aha oe Feii (Are You Jealous), 1892
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Brittany Landscape: the David Mill, 1894
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Garden under Snow, 1879
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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And the Gold of their Bodies, 1901
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $25.99
Eiaha Ohipa , 1896
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Te Tiare Farani
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Winter Landscape, 1879
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Be Be (The Nativity), 1896
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Sunflowers, 1901
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Fatata te Miti
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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Price: $27.99
Old Women of Arles, 1888
27" x 20" Fine Art Print
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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.