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1848 Paris, France - 1903 Atuona (Hiva Oa), South Pacific Island. 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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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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.
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