Tour: Paul Gauguin

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Gauguin began collecting works by the impressionists in the 1870s. A successful stockbroker, he studied painting under Pissarro and soon abandoned his middle-class life to be an artist, participating in the impressionists' last four group exhibitions. By the late 1880s, however, impressionism's preoccupation with visual effects no longer satisfied him. Like contemporary symbolist writers, he sought to express interior states rather than surface appearances.

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Captions

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1	Paul Gauguin, Landscape at Le Pouldu, 1890
2	Paul Gauguin, Self-Portrait, 1889
3	Paul Gauguin, Haystacks in Brittany, 1890
4	Paul Gauguin, Parau na te Varua ino (Words of the Devil), 1892
5	Paul Gauguin, Fatata te Miti (By the Sea), 1892
6	Paul Gauguin, The Bathers, 1897
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7	Paul Gauguin, Te Pape Nave Nave (Delectable Waters), 1898