Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin was born in 1848 in Paris and died in 1903. He was part of the Impressionist, Post Impressionist, and Symbolism movements, and was greatly influenced by Camille Pissarro, Emile Bernard, and Vincent van Gogh. Despite the fact that Paul Gauguin was born in Paris he spent most of his childhood in Peru, returning eventually to France in 1855. At first Paul Gauguin painted as a hobby while working as a stockbroker, until the stock market crashed in 1882. Turning to an art career Gauguin joined the Impressionists in style. His was dissatisfied with the purely visual emphasis of the movement and attempted to a add more symbolism and spirituality to his artwork. He eventually developed a new style which was influenced by his love of Japanese prints; he created paintings with bold splashes of color, bright streaks of unmixed paint, and simplified designs. Gauguin developed a fascination for exotic cultures, which was probably derived from his childhood memories of South America. In 1891 Gauguin moved to the French colony of Tahiti, where he created the paintings he is best known for today. Unfortunately he led a life of poverty in this area and his health deteriorated.

Common misspellings: Gougin, Gouguin, Gaugin, Gaugun

Famous paintings, prints, posters and artwork by Paul Gauguin

Abandoned Garden, Rouen (1884 AD)
Aline Gauguin and One of Her Brothers (1883 AD)
Among the Lillies (1893 AD)
And the Gold of Their Bodies (1901 AD)
A Little Washerwoman (1887 AD)
A Meadow on the Banks of the Aven (1888 AD)
A Tahitian Woman with a Flower in Her Hair
Apple Trees at l'Hermitage (1879 AD)
Apple Trees at l'Hermitage (1879 AD)
Apples and Bowl (1888 AD)
Apples, Jug, Iridescent Glass (1884 AD)
Arearea No Varua Ino (1894 AD)
Around the Huts (1887 AD)
At the Big Mountain (1892 AD)
At the Black Rocks (1889 AD)
At the Foot of the Mountain (1892 AD)
Atiti (1892 AD)
Autumn Landscape (1877 AD)
Aven Valley, Upstream of Pont-Aven (1888 AD)
Baby (1896 AD)
Banks of the Oise (1881 AD)
Bare Trees (1885 AD)
Basket of Flowers (1884 AD)
Bathing Place, Pont-Aven Port (1886 AD)
Bathing, Dieppe (1885 AD)
Beach at Le Pouldu (1889 AD)
Beautiful Land, Tahitian Eve (1892 AD)
Beneath the Pandanus Tree (1891 AD)
Blue Barge (1882 AD)
Blue Roofs, Rouen (1884 AD)
Blue Trees (1888 AD)
Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin (1889 AD)
Bordeaux Harbor (1886 AD)
Bouquet of Flowers (1882 AD)
Bouquet of Flowers (1893 AD)
Bouquet of Peonies on a Musical Score (1876 AD)
Boy by the Water (1885 AD)
Breton Landscape - Fields by the Sea (1889 AD)
Breton Shepherdess (1886 AD)
Breton Village in the Snow (1894 AD)
Breton Woman and Goose by the Water (1888 AD)
Breton Woman in Prayer (1894 AD)
Breton Woman with Pitcher (1888 AD)
Breton Women at the Turn (1888 AD)
Breton Boy by the Aven River (1888 AD)
Breton Boy in a Landscape (1889 AD)
Breton Boys Wrestling (1888 AD)
Breton Fishermen (1888 AD)
Breton Girls by the Sea (1889 AD)
Breton Girls Dancing (1888 AD)
Breton Landscape (1894 AD)
Bretons and Cows (1889 AD)
Brittany Landscape (1889 AD)
Bust of a Nude Girl (1884 AD)
By the Sea (1892 AD)
By the Seashore (1887 AD)
By the Stream, Autumn (1885 AD)
Cabin Under the Trees (1892 AD)
Cail Factories and Quai de Grenelle (1875 AD)
Captain Jacob (1888 AD)
Caricature, Self-Portrait (1889 AD)
Cattle Drinking (1885 AD)
Cavalier Devant La Case (1902 AD)
Chicken Coup (1873 AD)
Children in the Pasture (1884 AD)
China Asters, Hat and Book (1876 AD)
Chou Quarries at Pontoise I (1882 AD)
Chou Quarries at Pontoise II (1882 AD)
Chou Quarry, Hole in the Cliff (1882 AD)
Christ in the Garden of Olives (1889 AD)
Christmas Night (1896 AD)
Clearing I (1874 AD)
Cliff Near Dieppe (1885 AD)
Clovis (1886 AD)
Clovis Gauguin Asleep (1884 AD)
Come Here (1891 AD)
Contes Barbares (1902 AD)
Conversation (1885 AD)
Corner of the Garden, rue Carcel (1882 AD)
Cottages on Mount Sainte-Marguerite (1888 AD)
Cove Opposite Pont-Aven Harbor (1888 AD)
Cow in a Meadow, Rouen (1884 AD)
Cows by the Sea (1886 AD)
Crouching Marquesan Woman See from the Back (1902 AD)
Dahlias and Mandolin (1883 AD)
Dahlias in a Copper Vase (1885 AD)
Daisies and Peonies in a Blue Vase (1876 AD)
Delectable Waters (1898 AD)
Delightful Day (1896 AD)
Delightful Drowsiness (1894 AD)
Dogs Running Through a Field (1888 AD)
Donkey by the Lane (1885 AD)
Double Portrait of a Young Girl (1883 AD)
Evening Primroses in a Vase (1885 AD)
Farm in Brittany (1886 AD)
Farm in Brittany (1894 AD)
Farm in Brittany (1894 AD)
Farm in Osny (1883 AD)
Fields at le Pouldu (1890 AD)
Flower Piece (1896 AD)
Flowers and a Bird (1886 AD)
Flowers and Carpet (1880 AD)
Flowers and Carpet (1881 AD)
Flowers and Japanese Book (1882 AD)
Flowers in a Fruit Bowl (1894 AD)
Flowers of France (1891 AD)
Fire by the Water (1886 AD)
Fire Dance (1891 AD)
First Spring Flowers (1888 AD)
Fishermen and Bathers on the Aven (1888 AD)
Floral and Vegetable Motifs (1893 AD)
Flutist on the Cliffs (1889 AD)
Forest Edge (1885 AD)
Forest Path (1873 AD)
Four Breton Women (1886 AD)
Four Breton Women (Study) (1886 AD)
Fruit (1886 AD)
Fruit (1888 AD)
Fruit in a Bowl (1886 AD)
Garden View, Rouen (1884 AD)
Gauguin at His Easel (1885 AD)
Geese in the Meadow (1885 AD)
Geese on the Farm (1879 AD)
Girl with a Fan (1902 AD)
Grape Harvest in Arles (1888 AD)
Gratte Coqs Path (1882 AD)
Green Christ (1889 AD)
Haere Pape (1892 AD)
Hail Mary (1891 AD)
Hail Mary (1894 AD)
Haymaking (1888 AD)
Haymaking in Brittany (1889 AD)
Haymaking Near Dieppe (1885 AD)
Haystack, Near Arles (1888 AD)
Haystacks in Britanny (1890 AD)
Henhouse (1884 AD)
Her Name is Viaraumati (1892 AD)
Hillside (1884 AD)
Horse and Cow in a Field (1885 AD)
Horse on Road, Tahitian Landscape (1899 AD)
Horsemen on the Beach (1902 AD)
Houses in le Pouldu (1890 AD)
Houses, Vaugirard (1880 AD)
Human Misery (1889 AD)
Huts Under the Trees (1887 AD)
Idyll in Tahitgi (1901 AD)
In Brittany (1889 AD)
In Olden Times (1892 AD)
In the Forest, Saint-Cloud (1873 AD)
In the Forest, Saint-Cloud II (1873 AD)
In the Heat of the Day (1888 AD)
In the Vanilla Grove, Man and Horse (1891 AD)
Ingeborg Thaulow (1883 AD)
Interior of the Painter's House, rue Carcel (1881 AD)
Joan of Arc (1889 AD)
Joyousness (1892 AD)
Joyousness II
Kelp Gatherers (1890 AD)
Kneeling Cow (1888 AD)
La Groue Farm, Osny (1883 AD)
Landscape (1885 AD)
Landscape at le Pouldu - the Isolated House (1889 AD)
Landscape with Black Pigs and a Crouching Tahitian (1891 AD)
Landscape with Cows in an Orchard (1885 AD)
Landscape with Geese (1888 AD)
Landscape with Peacocks (1892 AD)
Landscape with Poplars (1875 AD)
Landscape with Three Figures (1901 AD)
Landscape with Three Trees (1892 AD)
Little Breton Bather (1888 AD)
Little Breton Shepherd (1888 AD)
Little Cat (1888 AD)
Little Girls (1889 AD)
Landscape with Two Goats (1897 AD)
Landscape, Farmhouse in Arles (1888 AD)
Lane at Alchamps, Arles (1888 AD)
Lane Through the Beaches (1885 AD)
Les Alychamps (1888 AD)
Lilac Bouquet (1885 AD)
Lollichon Field (1886 AD)
Lollichon Field and Pont-Aven Church (1886 AD)
M. Loulou (1890 AD)
Madame Angele Satre, the Innkeeper at Pont-Aven (1889 AD)
Madame Mette Gauguin in an Evening Dress (1884 AD)
Madame Roulin (1888 AD)
Mahana No Atua (1894 AD)
Man with a Toque (1877 AD)
Man with an Ax (1891 AD)
Mandolin on a Chair (1880 AD)
Mango Pickers, Martinique (1887 AD)
Marquesan Landscape with a Horse (1901 AD)
Martinique Landscape (1887 AD)
Mas, near Arles (1888 AD)
Maternity (1899 AD)
Maternity II (1899 AD)
Meadow in Martinique (1887 AD)
Melancholy (1891 AD)
Mette Asleep on a Sova (1875 AD)
Meyer de Haan (1889 AD)
Miraculous Source (1894 AD)
Month of Mary (1899 AD)
Mount Sainte-Marguerite from near the Presbytery (1886 AD)
Mountain Landscape (1882 AD)
Mountains in Tahiti (1891 AD)
Musique Barbare (1893 AD)
Mysterious Water (1893 AD)
Nasturtiums and Dahlias in a Basket (1884 AD)
Nativity (1896 AD)
Near Rouen (1884 AD)
Near Rouen (1884 AD)
Negreries Martinique (1890 AD)
Nevermore, Oh Tahiti (1897 AD)
Night Cafe at Arles (1888 AD)
Nirvana (1890 AD)
Nostalgic Promenade (1889 AD)
Not Working (1896 AD)
Notre-Dame-des-Agnes, Rouen (1884 AD)
Old Women at Arles (1888 AD)
Osny, rue de Pontoise, Winter (1883 AD)
Osny, the Gate, Busagny Farm (1883 AD)
Ostervold Park, Copenhagen (1885 AD)
Otahi (1893 AD)
Paris in the Snow (1894 AD)
Party Wall (1881 AD)
Path down to the Aven (1888 AD)
Pears and Grapes (1875 AD)
Peasant Woman and Cows in a Landscape (1890 AD)
Pere Jean's Path (1885 AD)
Pissarro's Garden, Quai du Pothuis, Pontoise (1881 AD)
Pond with Ducks (1881 AD)
Pont-Aven in the Snow (1888 AD)
Pont-Aven Woman and Child (1886 AD)
Poplars, Osny (1883 AD)
Port de Grenelle (1875 AD)
Port de Grenelle (1875 AD)
Port de Javel (1876 AD)
Port de Javel (1876 AD)
Portrait of Annah the Javanese (1893 AD)
Portrait of Claude Antoine Charles Favre (1877 AD)
Portrait of Ingeborg Thaulow (1877 AD)
Portrait of Isidore Gauguin (1884 AD)
Portrait of Louis Roy (1893 AD)
Portrait of Madame Alexander Kholer (1887 AD)
Portrait of Madeline Bernard (1888 AD)
Portrait of Philibert Favre (1885 AD)
Portrait of a Child (1878 AD)
Portrait of a Little Boy (1888 AD)
Portrait of a Man Wearing a Lavalliere (1888 AD)
Portrait of a Pont-Aven Woman (1888 AD)
Portrait of a Seated Man (1884 AD)
Portrait of a Woman (1888 AD)
Portrait of a Woman with Cezanne Still Life (1890 AD)
Portrait of a Young Woman, Vaite (Jeanne) Goupil (1896 AD)
Portrait of Achille Granchi-Taylor (1885 AD)
Portrait of Aline (1884 AD)
Portrait of Aline Gauguin (1890 AD)
Portrait of Suzanne Bambridge (1891 AD)
Portrait of the Artist with the Idol (1893 AD)
Portrait of Two Children (1889 AD)
Portrait of Vincent van Gogh Painting Sunflowers (1888 AD)
Portrait of William Molard (1894 AD)
Pots and Bouquets (1886 AD)
Red Hat (1886 AD)
Red Roof by the Water (1885 AD)
Redheaded Woman and Sunflowers (1891 AD)
Returning from the Harvest (1884 AD)
Riders on the Beach (1902 AD)
River Aven Below Mount Sainte-Marguerite (1888 AD)
River Bank in Winter (Study) (1882 AD)
River Under the Trees, Martinique (1887 AD)
Riverside (1879 AD)
Riverside (1887 AD)
Road in Tahiti (1891 AD)
Rocks and Sea (1886 AD)
Rocks on the Breton Coast (1888 AD)
Rocks on the Coast (1888 AD)
Rocky Coast (1886 AD)
Rouen Landscape (1884 AD)
Rouen Suburb (1884 AD)
Rouen, Spring (1884 AD)
Rowan Bouquet (1884 AD)
Rue Jouvenet, Rouen (1884 AD)
Savage Poems (1896 AD)
Scenes from Tahitian Live (1895 AD)
Schooner and Three-Master (1886 AD)
Seascape with Cow on the Edge of a Cliff (1888 AD)
Seashore, Martinique (1887 AD)
Seaside Harvest, le Pouldu (1890 AD)
Seated Breton Girl (1889 AD)
Seaweed Gatherers (1889 AD)
Self-Portrait with 'Yellow Christ' (1889 AD)
Self-Portrait with Hat (1894 AD)
Self-Portrait with Palette (1894 AD)
Self-Portrait with Spectacles (1903 AD)
Self-Portrait (1896 AD)
Self-Portrait (1899 AD)
Self-Portrait at Lezaven (1888 AD)
Self-Portrait at the Drawing Table (1894 AD)
Self-Portrait, Les Miserables (1888 AD)
Shepherd and Shepherdess in a Meadow (1888 AD)
Skaters in Fredericksberg Park (1885 AD)
Snow at Vaugirard (1879 AD)
Still Life with Apples and Green Vase (1890 AD)
Still Life with Apples, Pear and Ceramic Portrait Jug (1889 AD)
Still Life with Carafe and Ceramic Figure (1885 AD)
Still Life with Cherries (1886 AD)
Still Life with Chinese Peonies and Mandolin (1885 AD)
Still Life with Fan (1889 AD)
Still Life with Fruit Plate (1880 AD)
Still Life with Horse's Head (1886 AD)
Still Life with Japanese Print (1888 AD)
Still Life with Jug and Red Mullet (1877 AD)
Still Life with L'Esperance (1901 AD)
Still Life with Mangoes (1896 AD)
Still Life with Mangoes and Hisbiscus (1887 AD)
Still Life with Mig and Carafe (1882 AD)
Snow, Rue Carcel (1883 AD)
Spirit of the Dead Watching (1892 AD)
Stable near Dieppe (1885 AD)
Stable near Dieppe (1885 AD)
Still Life 'Ripipont' (1889 AD)
Still Life in an Interior, Copenhagen (1885 AD)
Still Life with Onions, Beetroot and a Japanese Print (1889 AD)
Still Life with Oranges (1881 AD)
Still Life with Oysters (1876 AD)
Still Life with Parrots (1902 AD)
Still Life with Peaches (1889 AD)
Still Life with Profile of Laval (1886 AD)
Still Life with Sunflowers on an Armchair (1901 AD)
Still Life with Tahitian Oranges (1892 AD)
Still Life with Teapot and Fruit (1896 AD)
Still Life with Three Puppies (1888 AD)
Still Life, Fete Gloanec (1888 AD)
Still Life, The White Bowl (1886 AD)
Still, Clay Jug and Iron Mug (1880 AD)
Stream, Osny (1883 AD)
Street in Rouen (1884 AD)
Street, Osny (1883 AD)
Street, Rouen (1884 AD)
Study of a Nude, Suzanne Sewing (1880 AD)
Suburb Under Snow (1886 AD)
Sunflowers (1901 AD)
Sunken Lane (1884 AD)
Sunken Path, Wooded Rose (1884 AD)
Tahitian Scene (1893 AD)
Tahitian Village (1892 AD)
Tahitian Woman (1894 AD)
Tahitian Woman and Boy (1899 AD)
Tahitian Woman and Two Children (1901 AD)
Tahitian Woman in a Landscape (1893 AD)
Tahitian Woman near a River (1893 AD)
Tahitian Landscape (1891 AD)
Tahitian Landscape (1897 AD)
Tahitian Man with His Arms Raised (1897 AD)
Tahitian Pastoral (1898 AD)
Tahitian Pastorals (1893 AD)
Tahitian Woman's Head
Tahitian Women Bathing (1892 AD)
Tahitian Women under the Palms (1892 AD)
Tahitians at Rest (1891 AD)
Taperaa Mahana (1892 AD)
Te Poipoi (1892 AD)
Tehamana Has Many Ancestors (1893 AD)
Thatched Hut under Palm Trees (1897 AD)
The Brooding Woman (1891 AD)
The Call (1902 AD)
The Canoe - A Tahitian Family (1896 AD)
The Cellist (1894 AD)
The Cliffs of Le Bouille (1884 AD)
The Clog Maker (1888 AD)
The Coast of Bellangenay (1890 AD)
The Creek, Le Pouldu (1890 AD)
The Encounter (1892 AD)
The Artist's Children, Impasse Malherne (1884 AD)
The Aven Running through Pont-Aven (1888 AD)
The Bathers (1898 AD)
The Big Tree (1891 AD)
The Black Pigs (1891 AD)
The Blue Roof (1890 AD)
The Boss's Daughter (1886 AD)
The Encounter (1894 AD)
The Family in the Garden, rue Carcel (1881 AD)
The Ford (1901 AD)
The Garden in Winter, rue Carcel (1883 AD)
The Gate (1889 AD)
The Great Buddah (1897 AD)
The Guitar Player (1894 AD)
The Ham (1889 AD)
The House of Hymns (1892 AD)
The Idol (1898 AD)
The King's Wife (1896 AD)
The Large Tree (1891 AD)
The Large Trees (1889 AD)
The Lemon Picker (1892 AD)
The Little Valley (1892 AD)
The Loss of Virginity (1891 AD)
The Magician of Hivaoa (1902 AD)
The Makings of a Bouquet (1880 AD)
The Market (1892 AD)
The Market Gardens of Vaugirard (1879 AD)
The Meal (1891 AD)
The Messengers of Oro (1893 AD)
The Milkmaid (1889 AD)
The Square Basin (1884 AD)
The Swineherd (1888 AD)
The Swineherd (1889 AD)
The Tree in the Farm Yard (1874 AD)
The Tree in the Farm Yard (Study) (1874 AD)
The Vision After the Sermon (1888 AD)
The Wave (1888 AD)
The Moment of Truth I (1892 AD)
The Moment of Truth II (1892 AD)
The Moon and the Earth (1893 AD)
The Moulin du Bois d'Amour Bathing Place (1886 AD)
The Offering (1902 AD)
The Port of Rouen (1884 AD)
The Port, Dieppe (1885 AD)
The Queen of Beauty (1897 AD)
The Red Cow (1889 AD)
The Road Up (1884 AD)
The Schuffenecker Family (1889 AD)
The Sculptor Aube and His Son (1882 AD)
The Seed of Areoi (1892 AD)
The Seine Opposite the Quai de Passy (1875 AD)
The Seine, Pont d'Iena, Snowing (1875 AD)
The Siesta (1892 AD)
The White Horse (1898 AD)
The Willows (1889 AD)
There Lies the Temple (1892 AD)
Three Huts, Tahiti (1892 AD)
Three Tahitian Women (1896 AD)
Three Tahitian Women Against a Yellow Background (1899 AD)
Three Tahitians (1898 AD)
Tomatoes and a Pewter Tankard on a Table (1883 AD)
Tree Lined Road, Rouen (1885 AD)
Tropical Conversation (1887 AD)
Tropical Vegetation (1887 AD)
Turkeys (1888 AD)
Two Breton Peasants on the Road (1894 AD)
Two Cows in the Meadow (1884 AD)
Two Girls Bathing (1887 AD)
Two Sisters (1892 AD)
Two Tahitian Women (1899 AD)
Two Vases of Flowers and a Fan (1885 AD)
Two Women (1902 AD)
Two Women (1902 AD)
Two Women on the Beach (1891 AD)
Vase of Flowers (after Delacroix) (1897 AD)
Vase of Flowers and Window (1881 AD)
Vase of Nasturtiums (1886 AD)
Vase of Peonies (1884 AD)
Vairumati (1897 AD)
Vase of Flowers (1886 AD)
Vaugirard Church (1879 AD)
View of Pont-Aven from Lezaven (1888 AD)
View of the Beach at Bellangenay (1889 AD)
Village in the Snow (1894 AD)
Village Street, Osny (1883 AD)
Washerwoman at Simonou Mill, Pont-Aven (1886 AD)
Washerwomen (1888 AD)
Washerwomen at the Roubine du Roi, Arles (1888 AD)
Watering Place (1885 AD)
Watering Place (1885 AD)
What News (1892 AD)
Woman in the Waves (1889 AD)
Woman on the Banks of the River (1892 AD)
Woman with a Flower (1891 AD)
Woman with a Mango (1892 AD)
Women at the Riverside (1892 AD)
Women Bathing, Dieppe (1885 AD)
Words of the Devil (1892 AD)
Working the Land (1873 AD)
What, Are You Jealous (1892 AD)
When Will You Marry (1892 AD)
Where Are You Going (1893 AD)
Where Are You Going (1893 AD)
Where Do We Come From (1897 AD)
Whispered Words II (1892 AD)
White House (1885 AD)
Why Are You Angry (1896 AD)
Willow by the Aven (1888 AD)
Willows (1885 AD)
Windmil, Ostervold Park (1885 AD)
Winter (1888 AD)
Winter Landscape, Effect of Snow (1879 AD)
Winter's End (1885 AD)
Woman by the Sea (1892 AD)
Woman Embroidering (1878 AD)
Woman in the Waves (1889 AD)
Yellow Christ (1889 AD)
Yellow Haystacks (1889 AD)
Young Breton by the Sea (1889 AD)
Young Breton Woman (1889 AD)
Young Girl Dreaming (1881 AD)
Young Man with a Flower (1891 AD)
Young Woman at a Window (1888 AD)
Young Woman Lying in the Grass (1884 AD)