Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a stockbroker at the Paris Bourse and at thirty-five he gave it all up to paint; in 1891 he left for Tahiti, in search of colour and of a life far from Europe. A few years earlier, in 1888, he had spent two months in Arles, in Provence, with Van Gogh, and there he painted his friend painting sunflowers.

In this collection you will find Fatata te Miti, that is, By the Sea, The Vision after the Sermon, Mata Mua, the Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake, The Day of the God and Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers, in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, printed on handmade Amalfi paper.

The painter he started out with, painting beside him outside Paris, was Camille Pissarro; his friend from Arles has his own collection: Van Gogh.