Paul Gauguin

One of the most famous painters of all time, Paul Gauguin started his painting career in 1871, when he took up lodging with his legal guardian Gustave Arosa. Arosa introduced him to one of the founders of Impressionism, Camille Pissarro, who became Gauguin's mentor in his early painting years.

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In 1891, in search of a refuge from the West "made rotten by industrial civilization," Gauguin set sail for the tropical island of Tahiti. It was during his years there that Gauguin produced some of his most poerful and mysterious canvases, full of brilliant color and exotic subjects. One of his most well-knon Tahiti paintings is the 1897-98 "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?" Gauguin himself was so impressed with it that he once wrote, "I shall never do any-thing better, or even like it."

Women of Tahiti On the Beach, 1891 VIEW more paintings from the exhibit.

For the first time in more than a century, a major retrospective exhibit titled "Gauguin Tahiti" is displaying a collection of paintings Gauguin created from the time he moved to Tahiti in 1891 until his death in 1903. The exhibit is making its only U.S. appearance at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts from February 29, 2004 through June 20, 2004.

Hear WBUR's Morning Edition story on Boston's MFA "Gauguin Tahiti" exhibit.

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