The wife of Mette-Sophie Gauguin, in the girlhood Gad refers to the early period of the artist’s work. With the young Dane Mette the painter gets acquainted in the house

The search for pure means of expressiveness and plots, dissociated from European mastery and intricacy, is what first of all catches your eye when you meet Gauguin’s “Dream.” The plot

An amazing work, always creating a contradiction between the title and content. But such is the view of a brilliant artist who sought to convey to the viewer his aesthetic

In March 1899, Pakhura gave birth to a son whom Gauguin called Emil. With this event Danielsson and several other researchers related the appearance of two paintings. Following Wildenstein, they

The French province with its unique patriarchal rural flavor always attracted Gauguin. Here he saw peace, dimensionality, some kind of innocence and purity of people – all this acted as

… A moment is a song of a whisper, Enchanted by history. The moment is you… I. Luzan, “The Moment” The picturesque canvas in the performance of the great Gauguin

To the writing of still lifes, Gaugin was particularly anxious. In this genre, he saw many opportunities for flying fantasy and finding new means of expressiveness. Especially a lot of

In 1891 Gauguin sailed to Polynesia in order to avoid European civilization and “everything that is artificial and usual.” His works of that period are full of quasi-religious symbols and

Paul Gauguin wrote an amazing canvas “House of the Hymns” in 1892, becoming finally an islander, leaving France. The work was included in the numerous collection of the second Tahitian

It is possible that someone will consider the artist’s predilection to be a display of the perverted taste of painting marshes, bare trees, killed animals and birds. But is not

One of the most famous paintings of Paul Gauguin. Created in Tahiti, is currently in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Gauguin went to Tahiti in 1881

The picture was created during Gauguin’s stay in Brittany. It was an innovative work – a vertical canvas on which the composition unfolds from the top down, contrary to all

During the life of Paul Gauguin, his and his paintings were surrounded by many scandals, and one of them is related to the work “Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane”,

One of the most controversial works of Gauguin. Some see in it a deep philosophical reflection of the painter, while others tend to regard the author as a sacrilegent who

Painting by Paul Gauguin “The Dance of the Little Brethren” was written by the artist in 1888 and is a sample of the post-impressionistic method of depiction. The manner of

The first appeal to the engraving was due to the desire of Gauguin to earn money on the publication of his works. Together with Emil Bernard, he created a series

The genre composition “Idyll in Tahiti” was written in 1901 by the post-impressionist Paul Gauguin. The painting was created approximately two years before the death of the artist during his

The second name of the painting – “The Wonderful Spring”, traditionally preserved in Russia, dates back to the catalog of the exhibition-sale of Gauguin 1895, which was probably composed by

The “Blue Roofs near Rouen”, written by Paul Gauguin in 1884, has a number of features characteristic of the art of impressionism. At the same time, the picture shows persistent

The French artist Paul Gauguin became one of those art historians called the post-impressionists – along with V. Van Gogh and A. Toulouse-Lautrec. The point, however, is not whether to

“Oran Maria”, “Ave, Maria”, “Ia Oran Maria” – the names of the same canvas, which are translated as follows: we greet you Mary. The picture is remarkable in that it