Paul Gauguin Hand Numbered Limited Edition Print on Paper :"When Will You Marry? (Nafea Faa Ipoipo)"
Title: When Will You Marry? (Nafea Faa Ipoipo)
Dimensions (W x H ): Paper Size: 21 x 28 in | Image Size: 17 x 23 in
Edition | Medium: Edition 99. The print is hand numbered and accompanied by a certificate signed by the Master Printer and bearing a matching number to the print. | Paper
About the Art: Limited Edition
About the Artist:
The artistic influence of French Post- Impressionist artist Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin has been enormous. He is one of the main sources from which non- naturalistic 20th Century art has emerged. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognised for his experimental use of colour and Synthetist style, that were distinct from Impressionism.
Born in Paris in 1848, part of his childhood was spent in Peru. In 1865 he became a sailor and then, in 1871, he returned to Paris securing a job as a stockbroker and developed himself as a Sunday painter. During this period he collected the works of the Impressionists and finally joined in their exhibitions.
Famously, during Gauguin’s time spent living in Brittany in the 1880’s, a disastrous encounter occurred between Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh, during which the two artists apparently argued about art, leading Van Gogh to chop off his own ear.
Gauguin was faced with increasing poverty after retiring and in 1891 he left Paris to work in Tahiti, where many of his most famous paintings were produced. He returned to Paris in 1893, but in 1895 went back to the South Seas and in 1901 moved to the Marquesas Islands, where he died.
