Born in Paris on 7 June 1849, Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin spent the earliest years in exile with his family in Lima, Peru, before returning to France. His did not pursue art exclusively in his early adulthood, instead serving for several years as a merchant marine, and later as a stockbroker’s clerk in Paris. In the early 1870s Gauguin tried painting, and visited the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. That same year, he met and began working with Camille Pissarro, who encouraged him to pursue an artistic career. By 1876 he was accepted in the Paris Salon, and was featured in that exhibition annually from 1879 through 1886. Gauguin began to meet other notable artists of the time, including Edgar Degas and Vincent van Gogh. In 1887 he travelled with fellow artist Charles Laval to Panama and Martinique, a trip that would later inspire his voyage and eventual relocation to the South Pacific. In his remaining years in Paris, Gauguin worked closely with the Synthetists and Symbolist artistic and literary groups. It was his association with those avant-garde circles that led to his break with Impressionism, and pursue more radical use of color in his work. In 1881, inspired both by his youth in Lima and travels to the Caribbean, Gauguin undertook his first trip to Tahiti, a place that would inspire much of his most famous and recognizable works, such as Where Do we Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897–98, Museum of Fine Arts Boston), the title of which speaks to Gauguin’s increasing disillusionment with the Western world – he often referred to civilization as a “disease”). In 1883, due to financial and health issues, Gauguin returned to France and shortly thereafter attempted, unsuccessfully, to commit suicide. After receiving a large inheritance, the artist was able to relocate to Dominica in the Marquesas Islands, where he lived and worked until his death in 1903. Despite having spent such long periods of time away from France, his reputation there flourished, and he has become established as one of the most significant French artists of the 19th century. His work can be found in the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; and the Kunstmuseum Basel.

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Legendary: The Blaquier-Arrieta Collection Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) Fleurs dans une coupe signed P. Gauguin (upper right) oil on canvas 12 ¼ by 18 ¾ in. 31 by 47.6 cm. Executed circa 1899-1901.

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Property from an Esteemed Private Collection

Property from an Esteemed Private Collection Paul Gauguin 1848 - 1903 Reine-marguerites, chapeau et livre signed P. Gauguin (lower right) oil on panel 8 by 16 ⅛ in. 20.5 by 41 cm. Executed between July and September 1876.

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reine-marguerites, chapeau et livre

Property from an Esteemed Private Collection Paul Gauguin 1848 - 1903 La Maison du pendu gouache and watercolor on board 10 ½ by 13 ½ in. 27 by 34.7 cm. Executed circa 1889-90. This work is accompanied by an Attestation of Inclusion from the Wildenstein Institute, and it will be included in the forthcoming Gauguin Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

la maison du pendu

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Property from a Distinguished Japanese Collection

Property from a Distinguished Japanese Collection Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) Près des cases signed P Gauguin and dated 87 (lower right) oil on canvas 34 ⅞ by 21 ⅜ in. 88.5 by 54.4 cm. Executed in 1887.

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Deluxe issue facsimile of Gauguin's Voyage de Tahiti.<ul><li>Paul Gauguin (French).</li><li>Edited by Julius Meier-Graeffe</li><li>[Munchen; Berlin:&nbsp;Marees-Gesellschaft. Verlag R. Piper &amp; Co. Hersteller: Ganymed,&nbsp;1926].</li><li>[4], 204 [i.e. 210] pp. 1 vols.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Number LVI of LXXX copies specially bound (limitation notice on front pastedown).&nbsp;</li><li>Collotype facsimile reproducing in color the artist's watercolors, photographs, line drawings and woodcuts.</li><li>Missing the rare portfolio and dust jacket.</li><li>Bound in original citron morocco.</li></ul> The deluxe issue of this beautifully produced facsimile in color of Gauguin's original manuscript of his collaboration with the Symbolist poet Charles Morice. A version of the collaboration appeared in Gauguin's lifetime, but "Gauguin recopied and amplified his manuscript, adding watercolors, woodcuts, and an occasional photograph," and it is this manuscript, now in the Louvre, on which the present facsimile is based; Gauguin's "visual interpretation of this primitive culture in powerful rhythmic and totemic designs ... represents an important project in book-making by this major artist" (Garvey).

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