No, he was a rebel.
Paul Gauguin was born on June 7, 1848 and died on May 8, 1903. Paul Gauguin would have been 54 years old at the time of death or 167 years old today.
Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin
For a short time in 1888 he worked with Paul Gauguin.
The painting is by Paul Gauguin. He became disenchanted by the ugliness of city life and after seeing a brochure about Tahiti he left Paris. The time period was about 1892 when this painting was done.
For some little time he worked with Paul Gauguin.
For a few months in Arles in 1888 he worked together with Paul Gauguin. But they each painted their own paintings.
Paul Gauguin moved the idea of Impressionism to Post-Impressionism. He was the most exotic of the Post-Impressionists creating many Tahitian works. Unlike other Impressionists of his time, he used heavy outlines in his paintings.
Paul Gauguin was born in Paris, France. In 1851 the family left Paris for Peru,They lived for four years in Lima. At the age of seven, Gauguin and his family returned to France. They moved to Orléans, Where he was a good a student. He then spent some time in the merchant marine before becoming a stockbroker.
He was largely self-taught, but spent some time with painter Camille Pissarro who instructed him.
He was an amateur painter for several years before he exhibited for the first time in 1881.
According to Pola Gauguin's book "My Father, Paul Gauguin", Aline Gauguin, Paul Gauguin's mother, died shortly after her house at St. Cloud was set on fire, as a result of bombardment during the Franco-Prussian war. Pola writes that apart from a few valuable pieces of furniture, everything was lost in the fire, including the family papers. At the time of her death, Pola writes that Paul Gauguin was on board the cruiser Dessaix with the French Navy, patrolling the area between Denmark and Sweden known as the Cattegat; when he arrived back in France in 1871, at the age of 23, he found himself orphaned. Paul Gauguin's daughter also called Aline, died in 1897 at the age of twenty from pneuonia after catching a chill on her way home from a ball.