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Paul Gauguin
Vaches au repos
Oil on canvas, 80 х 64 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam)
In 1884 Gauguin gave up his well paid job in Paris to become a full time artist. He settled in Normandy where, on the advice of his art dealer, he began to paint Impressionist landscapes. The shipping magnate D.G. van Beuningen acquired this painting, with cows at a watering place, in 1933.
Paul Gauguin spent part of his youth in Peru, the country of his mother. In 1871, Gauguin became a stockbroker, but he was also a Sunday painter with considerable interest in the work of the impressionists. In 1884, Gauguin gave up his job and travelled to the coast of Normandy to become an artist. In 1888 he met Sérusier and Bernard who aroused his interest for primitive and non-western art. In a reaction against the Western civilisation, Gauguin went to Tahiti, to live there among ‘unspoiled’ people. He also searched for a purer painting style that was free of Western traditions and conventions. His use of non-natural colours and shapes had a considerable influence on the development of the expressionism by the artists of a later generation.
Source: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam)
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