![Portrait of Paul Gauguin](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/gauguin000.jpg)
Paul Gauguin Painting Reproductions 7 of 8
1848-1903
French Post-Impressionist Painter
Paul Gauguin is a French post-impressionist painter (Paris, 1848 - Atuona, Marquesas Islands, 1903).
A traveller at heart, Paul Gauguin's artistic career was a transition between Impressionism and Symbolism. Through his forms and colors, he was a decisive influence on the Fauvist and Expressionist painters.
From his early childhood in Peru, Paul Gauguin retained his taste for the unfamiliar. In 1865 he joined the navy, but on the advice of his tutor Gustave Arosa (a collector of paintings) he left in 1871 to work for a Parisian securities broker.
Married in 1873 to the Danish Mette-Sophie Gadd, by whom he had five children, he painted on Sundays and attended the academy founded by the Italian Filippo Colarossi. Camille Pizarro, a friend of Arosa's, advised and encouraged him to participate in Impressionist exhibitions from 1879; he then invited him to work in Pontoise with Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin and Paul Cézanne, whose example encouraged Gauguin to break away from Impressionism.
In late 1883, driven out of the bourse by the economic crisis, Gauguin first tried to support himself by painting in Rouen, where Pissarro and Claude Monet maintained contacts with wealthy art lovers, before deciding to set up business in Denmark. He was unsuccessful and returned to Paris in 1885 without wife and children. His fate was preordained: for years he continued to dream of business, but painting became his life.
On his return from his first trip to Pont-Aven in 1886, Gauguin exhibited the paintings he had brought back, along with those from the Rouen and Denmark periods, with their rich, muted tones.
In the following year, during his stay in Martinique, where he tried his hand at planting, he painted discreetly pointillist canvases in which the exoticism and colour that his memories of Peru and his sea voyages had imprinted on his memory (Seashore) emerge.
Gauguin's second visit to Pont-Aven was in 1888. Long discussions with the young Emile Bernard gave rise to a new aesthetic that contrasted neo-impressionism with synthetism (pure colours laid flat, dark rings), of which Vision after the Sermon (1888) - or Jacob's Struggle with the Angel - is the most obvious work.
During this period Gauguin became a leader of the Symbolist school, and from November to December 1888 he spent a break in Arles with Vincent Van Gogh and produced a series of brilliant canvases ('Aliscamps'). Gauguin left Van Gogh after the latter suffered a severe attack of madness. La Belle Angèle (1889) and Le Christ vert (1889) reflect the plastic and moral problems of this period, which was followed by his first trip to Tahiti (1891-1893).
Paul Gauguin's life was divided between Europe and the tropics. It was Polynesia that gave him a new creative force, making him the first great artist to appreciate and study the arts we now call "primitive", and then hand over the keys to them to the West.
"I am going away to calm myself, to free myself from the influence of civilization," Gauguin declared before setting sail for Tahiti in the spring of 1891. "For this purpose I must immerse myself in the virgin nature [...] without any other care than to transmit, like a child, the conceptions of my brain by means of the primitive means of art alone, the only good, the only true ones."
In Tahiti, Gauguin discovered the relatively pristine world of his dreams (Femmes de Tahiti, 1891). But fearing both intrigue and oblivion, he returned to Paris as soon as he had enough new paintings to participate in an exhibition with Durand-Ruel.
After seeing his works, Stéphane Malarmé is astonished to find "so many mysteries in so much brilliance." Not only writers, including August Strindberg and Charles Morris, with whom he wrote his autobiography Noa-Noa (1897), but also musicians came to his studio.
However, financial success came slowly. He lost a lawsuit, there was a brawl in Concarneau where sailors taunted his companion Ana la Javan, and Gauguin, fed up with Europe, left for Tahiti in 1895.
In Polynesia, the confused religiosity of Breton works gave way to great myths (pleasure, fear, death) and massive forms in saturated colours. The joy of returning to one's roots floods the paintings of 1896 (Jours délicieux), and then grief creeps in (Nevermore, 1897).
Suffering and depressed by the news of his daughter Aline's death, Gauguin contemplates suicide. Where do we come from? What are we? Where Are We Going (1897) became his testament.
The renewed enthusiasm that followed his move to the village of Atuona on the island of Hiva-Oa in the Marquesas (1901) produced masterpieces that convey his sense of a paradisiacal universe (Contes barbares, 1902). Gauguin also created sculptures. But exhausted by illness, alcohol and constant disputes with local authorities, he died shortly before the age of 55.
A traveller at heart, Paul Gauguin's artistic career was a transition between Impressionism and Symbolism. Through his forms and colors, he was a decisive influence on the Fauvist and Expressionist painters.
From his early childhood in Peru, Paul Gauguin retained his taste for the unfamiliar. In 1865 he joined the navy, but on the advice of his tutor Gustave Arosa (a collector of paintings) he left in 1871 to work for a Parisian securities broker.
Married in 1873 to the Danish Mette-Sophie Gadd, by whom he had five children, he painted on Sundays and attended the academy founded by the Italian Filippo Colarossi. Camille Pizarro, a friend of Arosa's, advised and encouraged him to participate in Impressionist exhibitions from 1879; he then invited him to work in Pontoise with Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin and Paul Cézanne, whose example encouraged Gauguin to break away from Impressionism.
In late 1883, driven out of the bourse by the economic crisis, Gauguin first tried to support himself by painting in Rouen, where Pissarro and Claude Monet maintained contacts with wealthy art lovers, before deciding to set up business in Denmark. He was unsuccessful and returned to Paris in 1885 without wife and children. His fate was preordained: for years he continued to dream of business, but painting became his life.
On his return from his first trip to Pont-Aven in 1886, Gauguin exhibited the paintings he had brought back, along with those from the Rouen and Denmark periods, with their rich, muted tones.
In the following year, during his stay in Martinique, where he tried his hand at planting, he painted discreetly pointillist canvases in which the exoticism and colour that his memories of Peru and his sea voyages had imprinted on his memory (Seashore) emerge.
Gauguin's second visit to Pont-Aven was in 1888. Long discussions with the young Emile Bernard gave rise to a new aesthetic that contrasted neo-impressionism with synthetism (pure colours laid flat, dark rings), of which Vision after the Sermon (1888) - or Jacob's Struggle with the Angel - is the most obvious work.
During this period Gauguin became a leader of the Symbolist school, and from November to December 1888 he spent a break in Arles with Vincent Van Gogh and produced a series of brilliant canvases ('Aliscamps'). Gauguin left Van Gogh after the latter suffered a severe attack of madness. La Belle Angèle (1889) and Le Christ vert (1889) reflect the plastic and moral problems of this period, which was followed by his first trip to Tahiti (1891-1893).
Paul Gauguin's life was divided between Europe and the tropics. It was Polynesia that gave him a new creative force, making him the first great artist to appreciate and study the arts we now call "primitive", and then hand over the keys to them to the West.
"I am going away to calm myself, to free myself from the influence of civilization," Gauguin declared before setting sail for Tahiti in the spring of 1891. "For this purpose I must immerse myself in the virgin nature [...] without any other care than to transmit, like a child, the conceptions of my brain by means of the primitive means of art alone, the only good, the only true ones."
In Tahiti, Gauguin discovered the relatively pristine world of his dreams (Femmes de Tahiti, 1891). But fearing both intrigue and oblivion, he returned to Paris as soon as he had enough new paintings to participate in an exhibition with Durand-Ruel.
After seeing his works, Stéphane Malarmé is astonished to find "so many mysteries in so much brilliance." Not only writers, including August Strindberg and Charles Morris, with whom he wrote his autobiography Noa-Noa (1897), but also musicians came to his studio.
However, financial success came slowly. He lost a lawsuit, there was a brawl in Concarneau where sailors taunted his companion Ana la Javan, and Gauguin, fed up with Europe, left for Tahiti in 1895.
In Polynesia, the confused religiosity of Breton works gave way to great myths (pleasure, fear, death) and massive forms in saturated colours. The joy of returning to one's roots floods the paintings of 1896 (Jours délicieux), and then grief creeps in (Nevermore, 1897).
Suffering and depressed by the news of his daughter Aline's death, Gauguin contemplates suicide. Where do we come from? What are we? Where Are We Going (1897) became his testament.
The renewed enthusiasm that followed his move to the village of Atuona on the island of Hiva-Oa in the Marquesas (1901) produced masterpieces that convey his sense of a paradisiacal universe (Contes barbares, 1902). Gauguin also created sculptures. But exhausted by illness, alcohol and constant disputes with local authorities, he died shortly before the age of 55.
183 Gauguin Paintings
![An Orchard under the Church of Bihorel, 1884 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin146.jpg)
An Orchard under the Church of Bihorel 1884
Oil Painting
$652
$652
Canvas Print
$60.94
$60.94
SKU: GAP-13139
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 73 x 92 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 73 x 92 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain
![The Field of Derout-Lollichon, 1886 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin147.jpg)
The Field of Derout-Lollichon 1886
Oil Painting
$749
$749
Canvas Print
$61.08
$61.08
SKU: GAP-13140
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 59.3 x 92 cm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 59.3 x 92 cm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA
![The Red Cow, 1889 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin148.jpg)
The Red Cow 1889
Oil Painting
$739
$739
Canvas Print
$61.22
$61.22
SKU: GAP-13141
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 90.8 x 73 cm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 90.8 x 73 cm
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA
![The Side of the Hill, 1884 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin149.jpg)
The Side of the Hill 1884
Oil Painting
$536
$536
Canvas Print
$53.61
$53.61
SKU: GAP-13142
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 65 x 45.7 cm
Private Collection
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 65 x 45.7 cm
Private Collection
![Landscape on the Pont-Aven, 1886 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin150.jpg)
Landscape on the Pont-Aven 1886
Oil Painting
$765
$765
Canvas Print
$64.04
$64.04
SKU: GAP-13143
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
![Te Rerioa (Day Dreaming), 1897 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin151.jpg)
Te Rerioa (Day Dreaming) 1897
Oil Painting
$759
$759
Canvas Print
$55.58
$55.58
SKU: GAP-13144
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 95.1 x 130.2 cm
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, United Kingdom
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 95.1 x 130.2 cm
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, United Kingdom
![Still Life with Profile of Laval, 1886 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin152.jpg)
Still Life with Profile of Laval 1886
Oil Painting
$620
$620
Canvas Print
$51.20
$51.20
SKU: GAP-13145
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 46 x 38.1 cm
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 46 x 38.1 cm
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA
![Les Parau Parau (The Gossipers), 1891 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin153.jpg)
Les Parau Parau (The Gossipers) 1891
Oil Painting
$722
$722
Canvas Print
$57.84
$57.84
SKU: GAP-13146
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 70.5 x 90.3 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 70.5 x 90.3 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
![Tropical Conversation, 1887 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin154.jpg)
Tropical Conversation 1887
Oil Painting
$656
$656
Canvas Print
$62.21
$62.21
SKU: GAP-13147
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 61 x 76 cm
Private Collection
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 61 x 76 cm
Private Collection
![Still Life with l'Esperance, 1901 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin155.jpg)
Still Life with l'Esperance 1901
Oil Painting
$793
$793
Canvas Print
$66.30
$66.30
SKU: GAP-13148
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
![Huts under the Trees, 1887 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin156.jpg)
Huts under the Trees 1887
Oil Painting
$744
$744
Canvas Print
$61.08
$61.08
SKU: GAP-13149
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
![Still Life with Oranges, 1881 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin157.jpg)
Still Life with Oranges 1881
Oil Painting
$491
$491
Canvas Print
$51.20
$51.20
SKU: GAP-13150
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 33 x 46 cm
Musee des Beaux Arts, Rennes, France
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 33 x 46 cm
Musee des Beaux Arts, Rennes, France
![Haymaking, 1889 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin158.jpg)
Haymaking 1889
Oil Painting
$765
$765
Canvas Print
$61.64
$61.64
SKU: GAP-13151
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 92 x 73.3 cm
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, United Kingdom
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 92 x 73.3 cm
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, United Kingdom
![Man Picking Fruit from a Tree, 1897 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin159.jpg)
Man Picking Fruit from a Tree 1897
Oil Painting
$715
$715
Canvas Print
$62.21
$62.21
SKU: GAP-13152
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 92 x 72 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 92 x 72 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
![To Make a Bouquet, 1880 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin160.jpg)
To Make a Bouquet 1880
Oil Painting
$620
$620
Canvas Print
$63.76
$63.76
SKU: GAP-13153
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 54 x 65.1 cm
Private Collection
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 54 x 65.1 cm
Private Collection
![Landscape at Arles, 1888 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin161.jpg)
Landscape at Arles 1888
Oil Painting
$719
$719
Canvas Print
$60.94
$60.94
SKU: GAP-13154
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 72.5 x 92 cm
National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 72.5 x 92 cm
National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
![Girl Herding Pigs, 1889 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin162.jpg)
Girl Herding Pigs 1889
Oil Painting
$725
$725
Canvas Print
$61.50
$61.50
SKU: GAP-13155
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 73 x 92 cm
Private Collection
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 73 x 92 cm
Private Collection
![Christmas Night (The Blessing of the Oxen), c.1902/03 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin163.jpg)
Christmas Night (The Blessing of the Oxen) c.1902/03
Oil Painting
$707
$707
Canvas Print
$65.74
$65.74
SKU: GAP-13156
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 70.9 x 82.6 cm
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 70.9 x 82.6 cm
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA
![Dominican Landscape or, Landscape with a Pig and Horse, 1903 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin164.jpg)
Dominican Landscape or, Landscape with a Pig and Horse 1903
Oil Painting
$521
$521
Canvas Print
$62.91
$62.91
SKU: GAP-13157
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 75 x 65 cm
Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 75 x 65 cm
Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
![Rupe Rupe (Fruit Gathering), 1899 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin165.jpg)
Rupe Rupe (Fruit Gathering) 1899
Oil Painting
$807
$807
Canvas Print
$52.62
$52.62
SKU: GAP-13158
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 128 x 191 cm
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 128 x 191 cm
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
![Lollichon's Field and the Church of Pont-Aven, 1886 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin166.jpg)
Lollichon's Field and the Church of Pont-Aven 1886
Oil Painting
$744
$744
Canvas Print
$59.96
$59.96
SKU: GAP-13159
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 71.3 x 92 cm
Private Collection
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 71.3 x 92 cm
Private Collection
![The Turkeys (Pont Aven Landscape), 1888 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin167.jpg)
The Turkeys (Pont Aven Landscape) 1888
Oil Painting
$739
$739
Canvas Print
$61.08
$61.08
SKU: GAP-13160
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection
![Normandy Landscape: Cow in a Meadow, 1884 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin168.jpg)
Normandy Landscape: Cow in a Meadow 1884
Oil Painting
$522
$522
Canvas Print
$65.91
$65.91
SKU: GAP-13161
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 55.5 x 46.3 cm
Private Collection
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 55.5 x 46.3 cm
Private Collection
![Fatata te Miti (By the Sea), 1892 by Gauguin | Painting Reproduction](https://cdn.topofart.com/images/artists/Paul_Gauguin/paintings-lg/gauguin169.jpg)
Fatata te Miti (By the Sea) 1892
Oil Painting
$722
$722
Canvas Print
$57.84
$57.84
SKU: GAP-13162
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 67.9 x 91.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Paul Gauguin
Original Size: 67.9 x 91.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA