Paul (Eugéne-Henri) Gauguin was born on June 7, 1848 in Paris, but grew up in Lima as the son of a French Journalist and a Peruvian mother.  Gauguin is considered one of the leading painters of the Post-impressionist period.  His painting also marked the start of a new style in painting that became known as Symbolism.  From 1891, he lived and worked in Tahiti and elsewhere in the South Pacific.  His striking images of Polynesian women rank among the most beautiful paintings of the modern age.  Gauguin, dissipated by drug-addiction, died of syphilis May 8, 1903, Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia).

Children Wrestling, 1888	Tahitian Women, 1891

Where Do We Come From?  What Are We?  Where Do We Go?  1897