GAUGUIN, Paul
(b. 1848, Paris, d. 1903, Atuona, Hiva Oa, French Polynesia)

What's New? (Parau Api)

1892
Oil on canvas, 67 x 91 cm
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden

Paul Gauguin was one of the leading French painters of the Postimpressionist period. He is noted for his imaginative subjects and expressive use of colour, in attempts to capture a more primitive emotion in his works. He professed an appreciation of exotic peoples, whom he believed to be innocent of modern civilization's woes.




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