Paul Gauguin by Howard Greenfeld

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By Howard Greenfeld

A ebook on post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), written specially for younger readers. the writer tells the tale of Gauguin's lifestyles and paintings in a mode which should still attract these encountering the artist for the 1st time. The reader learns how Gauguin, a winning Paris stockbroker, left his kin to sail off to Tahiti on a creative quest that produced the various past due nineteenth century's most lovely and unique work. Greenfeld conveys a powerful experience of Gauguin's character and leaves the reader with an knowing of his fight to develop into an artist of importance.

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1891, Gauguin sailed for Tahiti. He took with him two man- dolins and a guitar (he enjoyed playing both instruments), as well as a French horn and a shotgun wild game. " These included a large collection of prints, photos, ductions of Greek and Egyptian art, Japanese prints, and contemporary and repro- Renaissance and Baroque paintings, art. The Haystacks, or The Potato Field. 1890 This at is one of a series Marie Henry's inn of landscapes painted by Gauguin during his stay in 1890. It is classic kill an example of what can be considered the Pont-Aven 49 style.

If this sketch to Vincent van Gogh of September after the in a letter 22, 1888. France for his in paintings, he assured his wife, the whole family could join him in Martinique where they would There was one serious flaw The island's damp in live happily together. what was otherwise an ideal existence. tropical climate proved to be devastating for Gauguin. Already weakened from his journey from France and his exhausting physical labor on the Panama Canal, he developed dysentery and malaria. After four months, he had to return to France for medical treatment, leaving his hopes of finding a new life on Martinique behind.

Because he bled so pro- fuselv, it was a miracle that he was still 38 alive. Gauguin summoned Theo immediately to Aries to care On Christmas morning, badly shaken by the experience, he for his brother. left for Paris. Gauguin's stay in Aries had been shorter than he had anticipated, and had ended several tragically. In spite of this, new Upon he had worked well there, completing canvases, including the moving portrait of haunting painting, Old Women his return to the it Van Gogh and at Aries. French capital, he was once again faced with the problem that had plagued him ever since he had made the decision to pur- Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers.

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