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Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 Jun, 1848 – 8 May, 1903)
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French Post-Impressionist artist, draftman, paint-maker and sculptor. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism. Toward the end of his life, he spent ten years in French Polynesia.
He is one of the most significant French artists to be initially schooled in Impressionism but who broke away from its fascination with the everyday world to pioneer a new style of painting broadly referred to as symbolism.
