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Paul Gauguin, Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?), 1892, oil on canvas, 40” x 30”, Qatar Museums, Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Paul Gauguin, Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?), 1892, oil on canvas, 40” x 30”, Qatar Museums, Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Gauguin?

Last week, artnews reported that Qatar purchased Paul Gauguin’s painting, Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?), for a rumored $300 million in a private sale. This is the highest price ever paid for a work of art. Since its … Continue reading

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In Their Own Words: Paul Gauguin

“There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to … Continue reading

Vincent van Gogh, Gauguin’s Chair, November 1888, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Image Courtesy of 1000Museums.com.

Vincent van Gogh Had a Party for One

The original “tortured artist,” Vincent van Gogh, painted this chair during his good friend and fellow artist, Paul Gauguin’s, visit to his Yellow House in Arles, France, a place that van Gogh dearly hoped would become and artists’ collective someday.  … Continue reading

Paul Gauguin, The Spirit of the Dead Watching (Manao Tupapau), 1892, oil on canvas, 28½” x 36½”, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Paul Gauguin’s Trouble in Paradise

Paul Gauguin’s brightly colored paintings of the tropics represent a paradise that dis not necessarily exist.  A leader of the Synthetist movement in painting in which artists used colors freely to express their personal feelings about a subject, Gauguin represented … Continue reading