About Paul Gauguin
(French, 1848-1903): Gauguin spent his childhood in Peru,
and began painting in 1873, when he
was working as a stockbroker in Paris. Although initially enthusiastic
about Impressionism, he
broke with it by infusing his image
with elements from his imagination.
His uses of flattened areas
of color, and of non-naturalistic
colors make him one of the important forebears in the modernist
trend toward expressionism.
He also pioneered appreciation of the simple and primitive, an
interest that led him to Martinique in 1887, Tahiti in 1891-1892
and 1895-1901, and finally to the Marquesa Islands, where he died.
Also see Fauvism and Symbolism.
Examples of his work:
Paul Gauguin, Still Life with Three Puppies, 1888,
oil on canvas,
34 3/4 x 24 5/8 inches (88 x 62.5 cm), Museum of Modern Art,
New York. W [catalogue raisonné
by George Wildenstein number] 293.
Paul Gauguin, Les Alyscamps, Arles, 1888, oil on canvas, 35 7/8 x 28 3/8 inches (91 x 72 cm), Musée d'Orsay, Paris. W 307.
Paul Gauguin, The Swineherd, Brittany, 1888, oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/2 inches (74 x 93 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Paul Gauguin, Vision
After the Sermon, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1888,
oil on canvas,
73 x 92 cm, National Gallery of Scotland. W 245.
Paul Gauguin, Washerwomen (Les Lavandières à Arles), 1888, oil on canvas, 29 7/8 x 36 1/4 inches (75.9 x 92.1 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Paul Gauguin, Breton Women at the Gate (Bretonnes a la Barrierre), 1889, zincograph on yellow wove paper, 21.3 x 26.3 cm, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. GU 9. See zincography.
Paul Gauguin, Portrait of Jacob Meyer de Haan, 1889, watercolor and pencil on paper, sheet: 6 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches (16.2 x 11.4cm), frame: 17 x 14 1/2 inches (43.2 x 36.8 cm), Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Paul Gauguin, Portrait of Jacob Meyer de Haan, 1889, oil on wood, 31 3/8 x 20 3/8 inches (79.6 x 51.7 cm), Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Paul Gauguin, The Yellow Christ (Le Christ jaune), 1889, oil on canvas, 36 1/4 x 28 7/8 inches (92.1 x 73.4 cm), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. W 327.
Paul Gauguin, Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), 1891, oil on canvas,
44 3/4 x 34 1/2 inches (113.7 x 87.6 cm), Metropolitan Museum
of Art, NY. (On the Met's page, you can enlarge any detail.)
Paul Gauguin, Tahitian Landscape, 1891, oil
on canvas, 26 3/4 x 36
3/8 inches, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Paul Gauguin, Tahitian
Women [On the Beach] (Femmes de Tahiti [Sur la plage]),
1891, oil on canvas,
27 1/8 x 35 7/8 inches (69 x 91 cm), Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
W 434.
Paul Gauguin, Under the Pandanus, 1891, oil
on canvas, Dallas Museum
of Art.
Paul Gauguin, Under the Pandanus, 1891, oil
on canvas, 28 3/4 x 36
inches, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Paul Gauguin, Tahitians, c. 1891-93, (depicted Tahiti,
made France), charcoal
on laid paper, 16 1/8 x 12 1/4 inches
(41 x 31.1 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. See study.
Paul Gauguin, Spirit
of the Dead Watching, 1892, oil
on burlap mounted on canvas,
28 1/2 x 36 3/8 inches (72.4 x 92.4 cm), Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, NY. W 457.
Paul Gauguin, The Seed of the Areoi (Te aa no areois),
1892, oil on burlap, 36
1/4 x 28 3/4 inches (92.1 x 72.1 cm), Museum of Modern Art, NY.
Paul Gauguin, Joyousness (Arearea), also known as The Red Dog, 1892, oil on canvas, 75 x 93 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris. W 468.
Paul Gauguin, Portrait
of the Artist with the Idol, c. 1893, oil
on canvas, 17 1/4 x 12
7/8 inches (43.8 x 32.7 cm), McNay Art Institute, San Antonio,
TX.
Paul Gauguin, Eu Haere ia oe (Woman with a Fruit),
1893, oil on canvas,
36 x 29 inches (92 x 73 cm), Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg,
Russia.
Paul Gauguin, The Moon and the Earth, 1893, oil on burlap, 45 x 24 1/2 inches (114.3 x 62.2 cm), Museum of Modern
Art, NY.
Paul Gauguin, Breton Peasant Women (Paysannes bretonnes), 1894, oil on canvas, 26 x 36 1/4 inches (66 x 92 cm), Musée d'Orsay, Paris. W 521.
Paul Gauguin, A Farm in Brittany, probably 1894, oil on canvas,
28 1/2 x 35 5/8 inches (72.4 x 90.5 cm), Metropolitan Museum
of Art, NY.
Paul Gauguin, Nave, Nave Moe (Miraculous Source), also known as Sacred Spring, 1894, oil on canvas, 73 x 98 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. W 512.
Paul Gauguin, Still Life with Teapot and Fruit, 1896,
oil on canvas,
18 3/4 x 26 inches (47.6 x 66 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art,
NY.
Paul Gauguin, Three Tahitian Women, 1896, oil on wood, 9 5/8 x 17 inches (24.4 x 43.2 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Paul Gauguin, Two Tahitian Women, 1899, oil
on canvas, 37 x 28 1/2
inches (94 x 72.4 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Paul Gauguin, Two Women, 1901 or 1902, oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/4 inches (73.7 x 92.1 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
The following were not painted by Gauguin, but by followers of Gauguin:
Pierre Girieud (French, 1875-1940), Hommage á Gauguin, 1906, gouache, 19 3/4 x 29 1/2 inches, private collection.
This painting was exhibited in the influential Armory
Show of 1913.
Style of Paul Gauguin (French, late 19th
century), Still Life, oil
on canvas, 15 1/8 x 18
1/4 inches (38.4 x 46.4 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Style of Paul Gauguin (French, late 19th
century), Tahitian Landscape, oil
on canvas, 25 3/8 x 18
5/8 inches (64.5 x 47.3 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Attributed to Paulin Jénot (French,
active by 1886, died after 1930), Captain Swaton, oil
on canvas, 16 1/8 x 13
inches (41 x 33 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
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