Born the son of a journalist, as a boy Gauguin lived in Lima, Peru for four years.  Gauguin began painting as an amateur while working as a stockbroker.

He met Pissarro in 1876 and exhibited with the Impressionists (1879-1882).  After devoting himself entirely to painting, he experienced great poverty and ill-health.

Tahitian Landscape With a Mountain
Paul Gauguin, 1843-1903, French
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota
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