paul gauguin

     

In 1887 this artist tried living in Panama & worked on the canal before the U.S. got involved

Trivia about paul gauguin

  • He was living in Tahiti when he painted "Poemes Barbares" in 1896
  • Paul Newman,Paul Anka,Paul Gauguin,Paul McCartney
  • In October 1888 this painter joined Van Gogh in Arles; he fled after that ugly ear incident
  • His 1891 painting of a street in Tahiti is in the Toledo Museum of Art
  • "Two Tahitian Women"
  • In 1892 he painted "Vahine No Te Vi. Woman With Mango"
  • This Frenchman considered "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?" to be his "Best Canvas"
  • In 1901 he left Tahiti for the Marquesas Islands where he died in poverty in 1903
  • He painted tropical landscapes on Martinique before he moved to Tahiti
  • In 1891 he held an auction of his paintings to finance his move to Tahiti
  • Parisian who painted the distinctly non-Parisian work seen here
  • This artist sold about 30 of his paintings in 1891 to finance a trip to Tahiti
  • His 1892 painting "Manao Tupapau" depicts a young Tahitian girl & a scary-looking spirit
  • On film Anthony Quinn & Donald Sutherland have played this artist, seen here in a self-portrait
  • A museum in Tahiti is devoted to this French artist's works & his life in Polynesia
  • Life was a "beach" for this Frenchman who captured the two women seen here
  • Anthony Quinn in "Lust for Life"
  • Edgar Leeteg, who painted Tahitian maidens on velvet, is known as "The American" equivalent of this French painter
  • The exotic influences on this great French painter can be seen here
  • He sold several paintings to finance his 1891 trip to Tahiti to observe & paint its customs
  • Better known for his work in the Seven Seas, he painted the Brittany scene shown here
  • This noted artist left Tahiti for the Marquesas Islands in 1901
  • In 1894 he completed "The Day of the Gods", the painting seen here
  • "The Moon and Sixpence" was Somerset Maugham's roman a clef based on the life of this French artist
  • The name of his 1896 painting "No Te Aha Oe Riri" means "Why Are You Angry"?
  • His pictures of Tahitian women with spirits include "Manao Tupapau (The Specter Watches Over Her)"
  • Sadly, a few years before he died in the Marquesas Islands, he attempted suicide by taking arsenic
  • The Nabis were painters in Paris who emulated the primitive style of this artist who left France for Tahiti in 1891
  • He painted "Tahitian Women" shortly after arriving on that island in 1891
  • In 1888 Vincent van Gogh threatened to kill this artist who was his roommate at the time