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Paul Gauguin - Paintings 1873-1879

In the late 1860s Gauguin traveled the world with the merchant marines as a third-class military seaman. He started painting and building an art collection when he settled in Paris as a stockbroker in 1872. Having inherited trust funds from his grandparents and earning good money in his new career, he lived well, marrying a middle-class Danish woman, Mette, in 1873, and had five children with her. After learning to paint and model on his own, Gauguin studied with neighboring professional artists. Intellectually restless and independent, he sought and absorbed information from myriad sources, synthesizing them into his own aesthetic. In 1879 Gauguin joined the "indépendants" (impressionists), thanks in part to Camille Pissarro, another New World transplant (from Danish Saint-Thomas) who became a special mentor.

Clearing 1873	In the forest Saint Cloud 1973	In the forest Saint Cloud 1873	The Forest Path 1873	Working the land 1873
Tree in the farm yard 1874	Tree in the farm yard 1874	Cail Factories and Quai of Grenelle 1875	Chicken Coop 1875	Landscape with Poplars 1875
Mette asleep on a sofa 1875	Pears and grapes 1875	The Seine at the Pont d'Iena 1875	The Seine in Paris 1875	The Seine opposite the wharf de passy 1875
Port de Grenelle 1875	The Coast of Bellangenay 1876	China Asters, Hat and Book 1876	Bouquet of Peonies on a Musical Score 1876	Daisies and peonies in blue vase 1876

Man with a Toque 1876	Port de Javel 1876	Port de Javel 1876	Still life with oysters 1876	Still life with red mullet and jug 1876
Autumn Landscape. Farm and pond 1877	Portrait of a child. Aline Gauguin 1877	Portrait of Claude Antoine Charles Favre 1877	Portrait of Ingeborg Thaulow 1877	The embroiderer or Mette Gauguin 1878
Apple-Trees in Blossom 1879	Garden under Snow 1879	Geese on the farm 1879	Riverside. Breton landscape 1879	Portrait of Gaugin's daughter Aline 1879
The market gardens of Vaugirard 1879	Vaugirard church 1879	Winter Landscape 1879