Paul Gauguin Biography:
Gauguin , 1848-1903, was a French painter and woodcut artist born in Paris as the son of a journalist and a French-Peruvian mother. He was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint on weekends. By the age of 35, with the encouragement of Camille Pissarro, he devoted himself completely to his art, prints and posters, having given up his position and separated (1885) from his wife and five children.
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