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(Eugène-Henri-) Gauguin
(b. June 7, 1848, Paris, Fr.--d. May 8, 1903, Atuona, Hiva Oa,)
(b. June 7, 1848, Paris, Fr. d. May 8, 1903, Atuona, Hiva Oa,
Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia), one of the leading
French painters of the Postimpressionist period, whose development of
a conceptual method of representation was a decisive step for
20th-century art. After spending a short period with
Vincent van Gogh
in Arles (1888), Gauguin increasingly abandoned imitative art for
expressiveness through colour. From 1891 he lived and worked in Tahiti
and elsewhere in the South Pacific. His masterpieces include the early
Vision After the Sermon (1888) and
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (1897-98).
[Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1994]
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