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Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) was active/lived in France, Tahiti.  Paul Gauguin is known for Post-Impressionist paintings, drawings, portraits.

The following text was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher in Laguna Hills, California:

Paul Gauguin was born in 1848 in Paris of a Breton father and a Peruvian Creole mother. His grandmother, Flora Tristan, was a revolutionary socialist and an early French feminist who sometimes claimed to be descended from "a Bourbon of Aragon" whose family also produced the Borgia popes and Lucrezia Borgia.  Tristan married a French engraver who became so violent that he was eventually locked up for twenty years. Their daughter, Aline Chazel, was Gauguin's mother.  His father, Clovis Gauguin, was a journalist who died when his son was an infant. 

As a small child, Paul was taken to Peru to live with an eccentric but affectionate great-uncle, Don Pio Tristan, a sometime field marshal insurrentionist and the last Spanish viceroy of Peru. Don Pio had a madman chained to the roof, a favor to the government, which reduced his local taxes. Gaug   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5002 characters.]  Artist bio

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