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Paul Gauguin

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Artikler om Paul Gauguin fra nytimes.com. Senest opdateret 4. maj 2012
  • AUCTIONS; Rage to Buy, Driven by Munch

    NEW YORK -- The art market entered a new phase on Wednesday evening when ''The Scream,'' a pastel drawn in 1895 by Edvard Munch, was sold for $119.92 million at Sotheby's auction of Impressionist and modern art. The winning bid, which came by telephone, set a world record for any work of art offered at auction. It also helped raise total sales to...

  • ART REVIEW; The Self-Invented Artist

    WASHINGTON -- Paul Gauguin was a dreadful man who made some beautiful art. That's the present take on him. In his craving for fame and fulfillment he dumped his family, bullied his friends, ripped off ideas and lied about his past. His book ''Noa Noa,'' which he advertised as an account of his life in Tahiti, was largely fantasy, mostly...

  • Gauguin, Obsessive Chameleon

    LONDON -- Perhaps modern art would have followed a different course if it had not been for the 1848 Revolution that shook France to its foundations. The violent upheaval sent a political journalist, Pierre Guillaume Clovis Gauguin, and his wife fleeing Paris to Peru in August 1849. Clovis died of a heart attack during the voyage. The five years...

Wikipedia

Paul Gauguin (7. juni 1848 i Paris - 9. maj 1903 på Marquesasøerne) var en fransk maler, billedhugger og grafiker.

Han var impressionist og udviklede omkring 1888 primitivismen i Bretagne. Det var en dekorativ stil med stærk forenkling og stærke konturer. I 1888 foretog han et kunsthistorisk meget omtalt besøg hos Vincent van Gogh i Arles i det sydlige Frankrig. Det endte, da van Gogh skar sin venstre øreflip af. I 1891–1893 og 1895–1903 opholdt Gauguin sig på Tahiti og Marquesasøerne for at male primitive polynesiske motiver. Han var en af den moderne kunsts største foregangsmænd.

Han boede en overgang i København, hvor han malede uden at kunne sælge og fik fem børn med sin danske kone, Mette Gad. Alberte Winding er efterkommer i lige linje.

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