- Self-taught Post-Impressionist and Synthetist Master
- Post-Impressionism
- Synthetism
- Painting
- Wood Carving
Paul Gauguin moved from an early association with Impressionism toward a deliberately anti-naturalistic language of flattened color, strong contour and symbolic narrative. His periods in Brittany, Martinique, Tahiti and the Marquesas became central to his art and also demand critical attention to the colonial conditions through which he represented other cultures.
Painting; sculpture; printmaking; ceramics; wood carving
Gallery Representation
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Works in Collections
Arlésiennes (Mistral)
1888 · Oil on jute canvas
73 × 92 cm (28 3/4 × 36 3/16 in.); Framed: 97.5 × 116.6 × 8 cm (38 3/8 × 45 7/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago →
Merahi metua no Tehamana (Tehamana Has Many Parents or The Ancestors of Tehamana)
1893 · Oil on jute canvas
75 × 53 cm (29 1/2 × 20 7/8 in.); Framed: 98.8 × 76.6 × 8.3 cm (38 7/8 × 30 1/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago →
Major Works
- 1888Vision after the Sermon
- 1889The Yellow Christ
- 1889Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake
- 1891Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
- 1892Manao tupapau (Spirit of the Dead Watching)
- 1892Fatata te Miti (By the Sea)
- 1897Nevermore
- 1897–98Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
- 1899Two Tahitian Women
- 1902Riders on the Beach
Museums & Public Collections
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