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PAUL GAUGUIN

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LondSC"~fM" Pont_Awn (/886)

Til< IlTtim' tol(/fIy in Pon,_A,"", raJ1;:il= GiWguin Jim ,rid going nam-.,

r,aring a Ji,b<r1l1iD1" ''mad: and dog" 711, Br"WI ''''mmmiry r .... oomi"J by

,b, anim f()r itJ folk traJi,i""" ,;,bid! in m.;,. t,m Ji",,,, .. J it fi"w" tlrbiDJ

torruption

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n 1S89, Paul G auguin ,,""al,ady nthe,an

exotic figure. I'a" of his childh,.,d ,,""

'I"':'" in Lim. with hi. P'''''''ian mO. her

and he had als() .,."cll,,] widdy in the n:lll"" nd

on busines<. Ila.,,",,,,, hi. q""'" ~>< an ,-:tnh~'

111ndi«: :i<'b..<tl~· hep> ., the Uni,,:ys,,1 hIla,;tiof)

in Pa .... , wh= the d;';l~ay uf. I"~p":,,ian ,iD.go::

i"'I';"'] him n) ","ch bL),,,,d the an;'ts' coianiel

he had ""P'."ri""",-,] in ]inn"".

Sculpting and carving wcre G auguin:'

eariiest artistic outletS. \\r,th the

these in"'nse nCW .nag<:< ~,ur,,] • mariet and

G auguin ,,-:t •• ble ~l finance hi. fi,st trip to

Tahiti in 1891 , w~h an o. her in 1894.l lccnd,,<]

his days in the ,\1a,'JUcsas, where he had """'<"<1

to ",'oid thc twin contr<~. of gOlcrnment

h.m,au<:1":l.C)· a"d the m;';si,,,,. riel ,'" Tahiri. 'He

,,"". I .. g.n and he saw nHun: with the eycs uf.

111g;.n' sa id Lc Moine" fi::llow exp1tria",.

C .. uguin'S final yC:t1'S "Crt, a loog, dnwn-out

stTUgglc with alcoh,~i'm and the effectS of

syphilis, relie,'cd only by .df_administered

en<"<lu"'gcment of l'i'<:I"o - hut al .. ,~Ulcly ""><Ilhine. Rut it ,,-:t. the urge to paint that k'l"

non/: &,. n his own family _ 111inting '-"'>ahl,,] him ali,'c .nd ,,",,-< all that he li,'<"<] ~,,": 'My

him to take ,,,n of himself in ,ciation to. a,tistic cenb"e is in my bnin, ""where else:

lengthy western t",dition and to ,un ]i(lilowing hi. dC:tth, G.uguin anained hLT,';c

I",,,"""ing hi. own unique "isi,,,,. ]ionun. ",Iy, ''"tUS in the C)'e. of G erma n EX)JJ",si,,,,i,,,,.

Contcs But..rcs (pri",i,;'·, Tal .. ) 1902

'!Our m'ili=ation i, YO'''' Ji""",. my barlmri,,,, i, my rrnorari<Jtl to b,al,b, I

"'" a """fl'. ' Gauguin', boM, non_narum/is'i, ftyl' ,"'()hm ,;:bi/, t."<1rking

,;:itb J"n GGgb" frimd. E",il< Bff"rIIlrd. Strong J.",rurit. .. lin" and /la',

brigbt ",lotlrt1:.·"" impiuJ by rimp', t."(JOO<tltJ and Japan", prin"