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Landscape With Peacocks
Matamoe
Paul Gauguin 1892
Description of Original: Oil on canvas
115 86 cm (45.3 33.9 in)
Current location: Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia
Eugne Henri Paul Gauguin, June 7, 1848 May 8, 1903.
Gauguin was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer.
His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential proponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms.
The vogue for Gauguin's work started soon after his death. Many of his later paintings were acquired by the Russian collector Sergei Shchukin. A substantial part of his collection is displayed in the Pushkin Museum and the Hermitage.
Gauguin paintings are rarely offered for sale; their price may be as high as $39.2 million USD. |
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