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Paul Gauguin, Matamoe
Paul Gauguin - Matamoe - Art Prints and Posters
Paul Gauguin
Matamoe
Regular Price: $352.00
Sale Price: $264.00 | you save 25%
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image size: 42 x 53 in.
item no: 88108
item type: Tapestry
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Wall Tapestry: These densely woven works of art and hand crafted in the USA. Woven on Jacquard looms, each tapestry utilizes up to ten miles of yarn and thread. The rich texture of each item is created through the use of cotton, wool, chenille, and some synthetic yarns.

These truly heirloom quality items can easily command the design of a room. Each piece is shipped ready to hang with adjustable rod, decorative finials, and hanging hardware.

Paul Gauguin Biography
1848-1903, French painter and woodcut artist, b. Paris; son of a journalist and a French-Peruvian mother.


Early Life

Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint on weekends. By the age of 35, with the encouragement of Camille Pissarro, he devoted himself completely to his art, having given up his position and separated (1885) from his wife and five children. Allying himself with the Impressionists, he exhibited with them from 1879 to 1886. The next year he sailed for Panama and Martinique. In protest against the "disease" of civilization, he determined to live primitively, but illness forced him to return to France. The next years were spent in Paris and Brittany, with a brief but tragic stay with Van Gogh at Arles.


Later Life and Art

In 1888, Gauguin and Émile Bernard proposed a synthetist theory of art, emphasizing the use of flat planes and... [View Full Biography]

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