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Early life. Paul Gauguin was born in Paris, France, on June 7, 1848, to a French father, a journalist from Orléans, and a mother of Spanish Peruvian descent. When Paul was three his parents sailed for Lima, Peru, after the victory of Louis Napoleon (1769–1821). His father died during the trip.
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Gauguin outlived three of his children; his favorite daughter Aline died of pneumonia, his son Clovis died of a blood infection following a hip operation, and a daughter, whose birth was portrayed in Gauguin's painting of 1896 Te tamari no atua, the child of Gauguin's young Tahitian mistress, Pau'ura, died only a few days after her birth on ...
- Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, 7 June 1848, Paris, French Second Republic
- 8 May 1903 (aged 54), Atuona, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia
Aug 18, 2022 · children: Aline, Clovis, Emile, Germaine Chardon, Jean René, Pola. Born Country: France. Quotes By Paul Gauguin French Men. Died on: May 8, 1903. place of death: Atuona, Hiva Oa, French Polynesia. Cause of Death: Syphilis. City: Paris. Recommended Lists: French Celebrities. French Artists & Painters. Male Artists & Painters.
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- Early Life
- Impressionism
- Primitivism
- With Van Gogh in Arles
- Tahiti & The South Seas
- Return to Paris
- Tahiti & The Marquesas
- Death & Legacy
Paul Gauguin was born in Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Paris on 7 June 1848. His father, Clovis Gauguin, was a journalist and his mother, Aline Marie Chazal, was of Spanish noble blood. Clovis, a Republican, was obliged to leave France when Emperor NapoleonIII took over the government in 1849. The family moved to Lima, Peru, but Clovis died of a heart att...
Gauguin's own interest in art and the new impressionist movement crossed paths in April 1874 in Paris at the First Impressionist Exhibition. Impressionists like Claude Monet (1840-1926), Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), and Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) attempted to capture momentary effects of light and colour, and Gauguin was so impressed he was o...
St. Pierre on Martinique inspired Gauguin with its light and bright colours. Living in a primitive hut outside the town, the artist focussed on painting the islanders of African descent. Selling his avant-garde paintings, though, proved just as difficult as in Panama or Paris. Gauguin utilised a wide range of art styles which show the influence of ...
By October 1888, Gauguin had racked up debts in Pont-Aven, but he was rescued by Theo van Gogh and his brother Vincent who invited Gauguin to join him in Arles in southern France. They shared the Yellow House in Arles, Vincent having made it a pleasant home decorated with his canvases, including several of sunflowers that Gauguin greatly admired. T...
In April 1891, Gauguin decided to leave France and head for Tahiti; he left both Juliette and his wife Mette and five children behind but did visit the latter in Copenhagen in March before he sailed to the Pacific. The voyage was paid for by auctioning 30 of his paintings. An agreement with the French Ministry of Fine Arts that Gauguin capture on c...
Gauguin rented a studio in Paris with money that Mette had saved up from sales while he was in Tahiti. Fortuitously, Gauguin then inherited a large sum of money from his uncle Isidore in Orléans. The artist refused to share very much of the windfall with Mette, and this caused the final rift between them, even if they had planned to reunite. Mette ...
Back in Tahiti in September, the island seemed to have sunk further under the weight of European colonialization. Searching for the last vestiges of indigenous culture, he moved to the tiny village of Punaauia to nurse his failing health and paint. Living with him was a local girl called Pau'ura a Tai (aka Pahura). A small amount of money trickled ...
After years of heart problems and the debilitating effects of syphilis, alcoholism, and malaria, Paul Gauguin died on 8 May 1903. He was buried in the cemetery at Hiva Oa, and his possessions and artworks were sold to whoever wanted them. Gauguin's eclecticism and misleading simplicity expressed in paintings, prints, sculpture, and ceramics had onl...
- Mark Cartwright
When artist Paul Gauguin’s 54-year-old dead body was lowered swiftly into his grave on the remote Pacific island of Hiva Oa, it was already rotting fast and stinking in the sweltering tropical heat. His legs, scarred and oozing with syphilitic sores, had two years before carried him to this last wild outpost of the known world, 900 miles ...
Jan 13, 2011 · Mette Gauguin is the great granddaughter via Paul, Gauguin’s fifth child with his wife - also called Mette. Recently, I took the opportunity to ask her some questions about her famous relative, and this is what she said: Paul Gauguin, Nevermore 1897Image courtesy Courtauld Collection. Christine Riding: When did you become aware of the ...
4 days ago · His mother died in 1867, leaving legal guardianship of the family with the businessman Gustave Arosa, who, upon Gauguin’s release from the merchant marine, secured a position for him as a stockbroker and introduced him to the Danish woman Mette Sophie Gad, whom Gauguin married in 1873.
