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    Paul Gauguin and artworks
    Paul Gauguin and artworks
    Paul Gauguin and artworks
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    Paul Gauguin and artworks

    By Jp. A. Calosse

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    Paul Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint at weekends as a Sunday painter. Nine years later, after a stock-market crash, he felt confident of his ability to earn a living for his family by painting and he resigned his position and took up the painter’s brush full time. Following the lead of Cézanne, Gauguin painted still-lifes from the very beginning of his artistic career. He even owned a still-life by Cézanne, which is shown in Gauguin’s painting Portrait of Marie Lagadu. The year 1891 was crucial for Gauguin. In that year he left France for Tahiti, where he stayed till 1893. This stay in Tahiti determined his future life and career, for in 1895, after a sojourn in France, he returned there for good. In Tahiti, Gauguin discovered primitive art, with its flat forms and violent colours, belonging to an untamed nature. With absolute sincerity, he transferred them onto his canvas. His paintings from then on reflected this style: a radical simplification of drawing; brilliant, pure, bright colours; an ornamental type composition; and a deliberate flatness of planes. Gauguin termed this style “synthetic symbolism”.
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    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateDec 5, 2022
    ISBN9781781609620
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    Paul Gauguin and artworks - Jp. A. Calosse

    Self-Portrait with a Palette

    c.1894. Oil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm. Private Collection

    Biography

    1848

    Paul Gauguin born in Paris, on June 7.

    1849

    The family left France for Peru; his father died at sea.

    1855-1861

    Returned to France after a five-year stay in Lima. Lived in Orleans, his father’s native town. Studied at the Petit Seminaire.

    1861(?)-1865

    Moved with his mother to Paris. Attended high school.

    1865

    Entered the merchant marine as a cabin-boy.

    1868-1871

    Served in the navy after the disbandment of the French army and navy settled in Paris.

    1871-1873

    Worked as a stockbrocker in the banking office of Bertin. In the house of his sister’s guardian, Gustave Arosa, began to take interest in art. Became acquainted with Camille Pissarro and Emile Schuffenecker. First amateur efforts at painting.

    1873-1875

    Married Mette Sophie Gad, a Dane from Copenhagen. Attended the Atelier Colarossi, acquired a collection of Impressionist pictures. The Seine by the Pont d’Iena.

    1876

    Exhibited a landscape at the official Salon.

    1877

    Took lessons from the sculptor Jules Ernest Bouillot and produced his first sculptures.

    1880

    Exhibited in the 5th Impressionist exhibition (seven paintings and a marble bust).

    1881

    Participated in the 6th Impressionist exhibition (eight paintings and two sculptures). Spent the summer holidays in Pontoise with Pissarro who introduced him to Cézanne.

    1882

    Took part in the 7th Impressionist exhibition (twelve oils and pastels, one sculpture).

    1883

    Resigned from his job at Bertin’s and devoted himself entirely to painting with Pissarro at Osny, where he spent his holidays studying.

    1884-1885

    Moved with his family first to Rouen, and then to Copenhagen, where he executed a number of paintings and wooden sculptures. Displayed interest in the Symbolist theories. Short show at the Society of the Friends of Art, Copenhagen. Left his wife and four children in the Danish capital and returned to Paris with his six-year-old son Clovis. Went to London for three weeks, later lived in Dieppe, where he made friends with Edgar Degas.

    1886

    Lived by turns in Pont-Aven (Brittany) and Paris; made ceramics at Ernest Chaplet’s workshop. Represented in the 8th Impressionist exhibition (nineteen paintings).

    1887

    In April, with Charles Laval, left for Panama, then moved to Martinique. Back in Paris in November, where he met Van Gogh. Organized his first one-man show at Boussod and Valadon, which included ceramics as well as Brittany and Martinique paintings. Became acquainted with Daniel de Monfreid.

    1888

    Lived at Pont-Aven. Produced pictures in his new synthetist and cloisonne manner. Gave ‘lessons’ in synthetic painting to Paul Sérusier. Painted The Vision after the Sermon, Wrestling Boys, Self-Portrait (with a profile of Bernard): Les Misérables, Fruit, etc. Stayed, from October to December, with Van Gogh at Arles, where he painted Café at Arles, The Alyscamps, Old Women of Arles and other works.

    1889

    Exhibited with his friends at the Café Volpini as ‘Groupe Impressionniste et Synthétiste’, where he showed seventeen of his paintings and a number of zincographs. Lived, alternatively, in Paris, Pont-Aven and Le Pouldu (Brittany). Painted Portrait of Meyer de Haan, The Yellow Christ, La Belle Angèle and The Schuffenecker Family. Carved the wooden relief Soyez amoureuses et vous serez heureuses (Be in love and you will be happy). Wrote two articles for the magazine Le Moderniste. Met Albert Aurier and Charles Morice. Frequented the Symbolist group at their meetings at the Café

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