Paul Gauguin Art Prints

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)

7 museum-quality prints of works by Paul Gauguin, each made to order on archival paper and shipped to your wall.

Paul Gauguin came to painting from a career as a stockbroker, mentored by Camille Pissarro and exhibiting with the Impressionists before rejecting their naturalism altogether. Working at Pont-Aven in Brittany from 1886, he developed a style of flattened forms, bold outline, and unmodulated color he called Synthetism. In late 1888 he joined Vincent van Gogh at Arles for nine weeks; Arlésiennes (Mistral), with its solemn procession of women through an arbitrarily conceived landscape, dates from that charged collaboration.

Seeking a world untouched by European convention, Gauguin sailed for Tahiti in 1891. The canvases of his first Polynesian stay — Te burao (1892), the portrait Merahi metua no Tehamana (1893) — mix observation of island life with invented mythology. Mahana no atua (Day of the God) was in fact painted in Paris in 1894, from memory and fantasy, its interlocking zones of acid color among the most abstract passages of his career. He returned to Polynesia in 1895 and died in the Marquesas Islands in 1903.