After Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) France
Charcoal on Paper
Measure 10 1/2"in H x 7 1/2"in W and 16 1/2"in H x 13 1/2"in W with frame
Known for: Post-Impressionist paintings, drawings, portraits
Biography: Paul Gauguin was born in 1848 in Paris of a Breton father and a Peruvian Creole mother. His grandmother, Flora Tristan, was a revolutionary socialist and an early French feminist who sometimes claimed to be descended from "a Bourbon of Aragon" whose family also produced the Borgia popes and Lucrezia Borgia. Tristan married a French engraver who became so violent that he was eventually locked up for twenty years. Their daughter, Aline Chazel, was Gauguin's mother. His father, Clovis Gauguin, was a journalist who died when his son was an infant. Paul had no formal education of any kind beyond high school. He ran away to sea at the age of fourteen, acquiring a taste for travel at that time. He left the French Navy at the close of the Franco-Prussian War. He settled in Paris, painting in his spare time while working in a banking house. He not only distinguished himself in his brokerage firm, but managed to make considerable profits from independent speculation, earning as much as the approximate equivalent of $40,000 in one year. Van Gogh, in despair at Gauguin's decision to leave, had severed his left ear with a razor, and handed it as a gift to a prostitute who had befriended him. Saddened by the disastrous culmination of his visit to Van Gogh and depressed by public laughter and neglect of his painting, Gauguin nevertheless painted several still lifes that belied his state of mind and manifested his belief that, "The Japanese are masters of us all." The influence of woodcuts became evident in the flat background and decorative patterning. The hot pinks and yellows anticipated the riotous colors that would dominate his Tahitian paintings. The painter Redon and the poet Mallarme' developed an idiom in which to express themselves that Gauguin used as the basis for what was to be his Tahitian art. He was going to a strange land to find a completely different decor to set his imagination free. He was therefore determined to associate in every possible way with the natives. He left Paris on the evening of April 4, 1891.
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