Family history and early life
Gauguin was born in Paris to Clovis Gauguin and Aline Chazal on 7 June 1848, the year of 展开

Gauguin's posthumous retrospective exhibitions at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1903, and an even larger one in 1906, had a stunning and powerful influence on the French avant-garde and in particular Pablo Picasso's paintings. In the autumn of 1906, … 展开

The vogue for Gauguin's work started soon after his death. Many of his later paintings were acquired by the Russian collector 展开

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• Frederick Delius (client and friend)
• Paul Gauguin's exhibit at Les XX, 1889 展开

Primitivism was an art movement of late 19th-century painting and sculpture, characterized by exaggerated body proportions, animal totems, geometric designs, and stark contrasts. The first artist to systematically use these effects and achieve broad public … 展开

Gauguin's initial artistic guidance was from Pissarro, but the relationship left more of a mark personally than stylistically. Gauguin's masters were Giotto, Raphael, Ingres, 展开

Gauguin began making prints in 1889, highlighted by a series of zincographs commissioned by Theo van Gogh known as the Volpini Suite, which also appeared in the Cafe des Arts show of 1889. Gauguin was not hindered by his printing inexperience, and made … 展开