Paul Gauguin's Death

The painter Paul Gauguin died at the age of 54. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Post-Impressionist artist who depicted village life in Tahiti in such colorful works as “Spirit of the Dead Watching.” His work became popular after his death and influenced such notables as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.

He married a Danish woman named Mette-Sophie Gad, with whom he had five children. His passion for art eventually consumed him, and his wife kicked him out. He returned to Paris where he spent the rest of his life battling depression.

Quotes

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor’s relative weaknesses.

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We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

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There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

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It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.