Paul Gauguin (c. 1891)
Paul Gauguin (c. 1891)

Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel · Public domain · Source

Person1848 – 1903

Paul Gauguin

French painter who worked with Van Gogh in Arles for two months in 1888 and later went to Tahiti to paint its people

Where they went

OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles © OpenStreetMap contributors

1 related event

  1. 1

    In Arles in southern France Van Gogh rented the Yellow House, painted sunflowers and the café at night and welcomed Gauguin — but two months later, after a violent quarrel, he injured his own ear.

People who appear alongside

  • Vincent van Gogh1853 – 1890

    Dutch painter who in little more than ten years made over 2,000 works, some 860 of them oil paintings, whose vivid colour and brushwork shaped modern art

Themes this person appears in

  • Vincent van Gogh1853 – 1890

    How a pastor’s son who decided at 27 to become a painter moved from the dark fields of Holland to the colours of Paris and the sun and stars of southern France, leaving over 2,000 works in ten years