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
Paul Gauguin - Artist Info
About Paul Gauguin: Books
Books & Publications (8)
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Palm Beach Visual Arts
2016
Pollack, Deborah C.
200 pages (color)
The MFA Handbook: A Guide to the Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2009
Rogers, Malcolm (Introduction) and Gilian Shallcross,(Entores
400 pages (color)
In The Natural State: The Nude in the Art of Natalie Van Vleck (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Chabot, Marc
14 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Gauguin
1971
Bowness, Alan
48 pages (color)
Gauguin
1959
Huyghe, Rene
95 pages (color)
Gauguin: Wildenstein Exhibition for Citizenx Committee of Children of New York City (Exhibition catalog)