Gauguin’s paintings command enormous prices. A passionate and dedicated artist who associated with the Impressionists and had a complicated connection with Vincent van Gogh, he was also intensely ambitious and driven. He abandoned his wife to support her and their five children, then traveled to Polynesia, using his position of power to take young women, aged 13 to 15, as wives. There, he captured images of them and their culture, presenting a romanticized vision of paradise. In his later years, Gauguin defied colonial powers and the Church to advocate for the Polynesian people. He died in 1903 in the Marquesas Islands, weakened by illness, lacking wealth, and isolated.
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