Paul Gauguin: French Symbolist

19th Century Painting

Paul Gauguin: French Symbolist

Early Works

The Artist's Home, Paris,1881 National Gallery Oslo
Landscape at Le Pouldu, 1890 National Gallery, Washington	Breton Girls Dancing, 1888 National Gallery, Washington
Breton Village in the Snow Musee d'Orsay	Britany Landscape Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Calvary, 1887 Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels	La Belle Angele, 1889 Musee d'Orsay, Paris
Portrait of Van Gogh painting, 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	Les Alyscamps (Arles), 1888 Musee d'Orsay, Paris	Les Alyscamps (Roman cemetary), Arles
Self-Portrait (les Miserables), 1888 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam	Self-Portrait with Yellow Christ, 1889 Musee d'Orsay, Paris
Ia Orana Maria, 1891 Metropolitan Museum, NY

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? 1897-98

Paul Gauguin: D'ou venons nous? Que sommes nous? D'ou allons nous? (where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?), 1897-98, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Late variants of "Where do we come from, What are we, Where are we going?"

Te pape nave nave, 1898 National Gallery, Washington	1903

All photos by J. Howe