BBC Arts - BBC Arts - The Pursuit of Paradise: Eight paintings tracing Paul Gauguin's quest for the exotic in Tahiti

Paul Gauguin didn’t grow up dreaming about Tahiti. In his 30s, he had a stable job in Paris, a wife, five children, a predictable life. Then the stock market crashed in 1882. He lost his income - and instead of rebuilding it, he chose painting. Not part-time. Fully. He left his family. Lived in poverty. At one point, he shared a house in Arles with Vincent van Gogh - a friendship that ended in tension and that infamous breakdown. But Gauguin wanted something else. He sailed to Tahiti in 1891, ch

Where do we come from? Who we are? Where do we go? of Gauguin | Analysis and description - Art&theCities

Paul Gauguin, vita e opere dell'artista tra la Francia e Tahiti