<Archive Obituary> Paul Gauguin (May 9th 1903)
Bill Schenley
Photo: http://www.paul--gauguin.com/images/artist/1272.jpg
FROM: The New York Times (September 26th 1903) ~
Paul Gauguin created a sensation a good many years
ago in Paris by showing a collection of pictures from
the South Pacific islands.
He was the son of a Breton sea captain, and his mother
was a Peruvian, with Indian blood in her veins.
For a time his eccentric pictures of Breton sea folk and
savages made an impression and he gathered disciples
about him: but the roving instinct was too strong. He
went back to the Pacific, spent twelve years among the
Maoris of New Zealand, and then found his way to
Tahiti, where he has lately died of leprosy in his fifty-first
year.
His early pictures of Breton landscape and seascape are
now sought by collectors.
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Photos:
http://www.rcs.k12.va.us/csjh/04_05_web/kellie/paul-gauguin2_b.jpg
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/rousseau/images/works/paulgauguin_lg.jpg
His work:
http://www.artistsguilds.com/art/Paul_Gauguin.jpg
(Study of a Nude) [1]
http://paul-gauguin.web-sy.fr/gauguin_vegetation_small.jpg
(Tropical Vegetation, Martinique)
http://www.xippas.com/i/artistes/gallery/vik_muniz/vm06_26a.jpg
(Otahi Alone)
http://communitas.princeton.edu/blogs/writingart11/Gauguinoriginal.bmp
(Portrait of Vincent Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers, Arles 1888)
http://www.essentialart.com/sw/Paul_Gauguin_When_Will_You_Marry.jpg
(When Will You Marry)
http://www.fantasyarts.net/Gauguin/paul_gauguin_self_portrait_idol_small.jpg
(Self Portrait)
[1] Sometimes referred to as Suzanne Sewing