Paul Gaugin was a French Post-Impressionist painter, writer, ceramist, printmaker, and sculptor. His art was not greatly appreciated until after his life. He was an prominent figure in the Symbolist movement. He also lead the way to the appreciation of Primitivism, as his paintings inspired the simplistic techniques employed by other artists. Paul was born in Paris, France and moved to Orleans at the age of seven. As an adult, he joined the French Navy and later was employed as a stockbroker. In France, he began painting in his free time, and became friends Camille Pisarro, who introduced him to other artists. Learn more »

Paintings by Paul Gauguin in Chronological Order

Clearing, 1873	In the forest Saint Cloud, 1873	The Forest Path, 1873
Working the land, 1873	Tree in the farm yard, 1874	Cail Factories and Quai of Grenelle, 1875
Chicken Coop, c.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	Bouquet of Peonies on a Musical Score, 1876
China Asters, Hat and Book, c.1876	Daisies and peonies in blue vase, 1876	Man with a Toque, c.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), c.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
Portrait of Gaugin’s daughter Aline, 1879	Riverside (Breton landscape), 1879	The market gardens of Vaugirard, 1879
Vaugirard church, 1879	Winter Landscape, 1879	Clay jug and irin mug, 1880
Flowers and carpet (Pansies), 1880	Houses at Vaugirard, 1880	Mandolin on a chair, 1880
Still life with fruit plate, 1880	To Make a Bouquet, 1880	Banks of the Oise, 1881
Corner of the garden rue Carsal, c.1881	Flowers and carpet, 1881	Interior of the Painter’s House, rue Carcel, 1881
Party wall, 1881	Pissarro’s Garden, Pontoise, 1881	Pond with Ducks (Girl Amusing Herself), 1881
River bank in winter, c.1881	Still life with Oranges, 1881	Still life. Vase with flowers on the window, 1881
The Queen’s Mill, 1881	Young Girl Dreaming (Study of a Child Asleep), 1881	At the Window, 1882
Aube the Sculptor and His Son, 1882	Blue Barge, 1882	Bouquet of flowers, 1882
Flowers and Japanese book, 1882	Gratte roosters path, 1882	Mountain landscape, 1882
Quarries at Pontoise, 1882	Quarry hole in the cliff, 1882	Aline Gauguin and one of her brothers, c.1883
Double portrait of a young girl, 1883	Farm in Osny, 1883	Garden In Rue Carcel, c.1883
Harbour Scene, Dieppe, c.1883	Ingeborg Thaulow, 1883	Mandolina and Flowers, 1883
Osny, rue de Pontoise, Winter, 1883	Stream in Osny, 1883	Street in Osny, 1883
The farm in Grue, 1883	The garden in winter, rue Carcel, 1883	Tomatoes and a pewter tankard on a table, 1883
Village street, Osny, 1883	A Henhouse, 1884	Abandoned garden in Rouen, c.1884
Basket of flowers, 1884	Blue roofs of Rouen, 1884	Bouquet, 1884
Clovis Gauguin asleep, 1884	Hillside, 1884	Landscape near Osny, c.1884
Mette Gauguin in an Evening Dress, 1884	Nasturtiums & dahlias in a basket, 1884	Near Rouen, 1884
Near Rouen, 1884	Normandy Landscape: Cow in a Meadow, 1884	Notre Dame des Agnes, 1884
Orchard under the Church of Bihorel, 1884	Osny, the gate of Busagny farm, 1884	Portrait of a seated man, 1884
Portrait of Aline, 1884	Portrait of Isidore Gauguin, 1884	Returning from the harvest (Manuring), 1884
Rouen at spring, 1884	Rouen suburb, 1884	Rue Jouvenet, Rouen, 1884
Skaters in Fredericksberg park, 1884	Street in Rouen, 1884	Street in Rouen, 1884
Sunken Lane, 1884	The artist’s children, 1884	The cliffs of Le-Bouille, 1884
The Port Of Rouen, 1884	The road up, 1884	The square pond, 1884
The vase of peonies, 1884	Two cows in the meadow, 1884	Wooded path, 1884
Young woman lying in a grass, 1884	Bare Trees, 1885	Bathing, Dieppe, 1885
Boy by the Water, 1885	By the Stream, Autumn, 1885	Cattle drinking, 1885
Cliff near Dieppe, 1885	Conversation, 1885	Dahlias in a copper vase, 1885
Donkey by lane, 1885	Evening primroses in the vase, 1885	Flowers and a bird, c.1885
Geese in the meadow, 1885	Haymaking near Dieppe, 1885	Horse and Cow in a Meadow, 1885
Landscape, 1885	Landscape with cows in an Orchard, 1885	Lilac bouquet, 1885
Oestervold Park, Copenhagen, 1885	Pere Jean’s Path, 1885	Portrait of Achille Granchi Taylor, 1885
Portrait of Philibert Favre, 1885	Red roof by the water, 1885	Self Portrait, 1885
Stabble near Dieppe, 1885	Still life of onions and pigeons and room interior Copenhagen, 1885	Still Life with a Mandolin, 1885
Still life with carafe and ceramic figure, 1885	The Forest Edge, 1885	Tree linen road, Rouen, 1885
Two vases of flowers and a fan, 1885	Watering place, 1885	White house, 1885
Willows, 1885	Winter’s end, 1885	Women bathing (Dieppe), 1885
Bathing in Front of the Port of Pont-Aven, 1886	Bordeaux Harbour, 1886	Breton Woman, 1886
Clovis, 1886	Coastal landscape, 1886	Cows on the Seashore, 1886
Farm in Brittany, 1886	Fire by the water, 1886	Four Breton Women, 1886
Fruit, 1886	Fruit in a bowl, 1886	Landscape at Pont-Aven, 1886
Lollichon Field, 1886	Lollichon’s Field and the Church of Pont-Aven, 1886	Pont-Aven woman and child, 1886
Pots and Boquets, 1886	Red hat, 1886	Rocks and sea, 1886
Schooner and three masters, 1886	Stabble near Dieppe, 1886	Still Life with Cherries, 1886
Still life with horse’s head, 1886	Still Life with Profile of Laval, 1886	Still life with white bowl, 1886
Suburb under snow, 1886	The boss’s daughter, 1886	The vase of nasturtiums, 1886
Vase of flowers, 1886	Washerwomen at Pont-Aven, 1886	A little washerman, 1887
A seashore, 1887	Around the huts, 1887	At the pond, 1887
Coastal Landscape from Martinique, 1887	Huts under Trees, 1887	Madame Alexandre Kohler, 1887
Mango pickers (Martinique), 1887	Meadow in Martinique, 1887	Martinique Landscape, 1887
Palm trees on Martinique, 1887	Still life with mangoes and hibiscus, 1887	Tropical Conversation, 1887
Tropical Landscape, Martinique, 1887	A little cat, 1888	Apples in bowl, 1888
Aven running through Pont-Aven, 1888	Blue trees, 1888	Bouquet of Flowers with a Window Open to the Sea, 1888
Breton Boy by the Aven River, 1888	Breton Boys Wrestling, 1888	Breton Fisherman, 1888
Breton girls dancing, 1888	Breton Woman and Goose by the Water, 1888	Breton Woman with a Pitcher, 1888
Breton Women at the Turn, 1888	Captain Jacob, 1888	Cottages on Mount Sainte Marguerite, 1888
Cove opposite Pont-Aven Harbor, 1888	Dogs running through a field, 1888	Fisherman and bathers on the Aven, 1888
Fruits, 1888	Grape Harvest at Arles, 1888	Haymaking in Brittany, 1888
Head of a Breton, 1888	Kneeling cow, 1888	Landscape at Arles, 1888
Landscape near Arles, 1888	Landscape of Brittany, 1888	Landscape with geese, 1888
Lane at alchamps, Arles, 1888	Les Alyscamps, 1888	Little breton bather, 1888
Madame Roulin, 1888	Mas, near Arles, 1888	Meadow at the banks of Aven, 1888
Night café, Arles, 1888	Old Women of Arles, 1888	Path down to the Aven, 1888
Petit Breton arranging his shoe, or Landscape at Pont-Aven, Brittany, 1888	Portrait of a little boy, 1888	Portrait of a man wearing a lavalliere, 1888
Portrait of a woman, 1888	Portrait of Madelaine Bernard, 1888	River Aven below moun Saint Marguerite, 1888
Rocks on the breton coast, 1888	Seascape with cow on the edge of a cliff, 1888	Self portrait at Lezaven, 1888
Self-Portrait Dedicated to Vincent van Gogh, 1888	Sheperd and sheperdess in a meadow, 1888	Still Life Fete Gloanec, 1888
Still life with Japanese print, 1888	Still Life with Three Puppies, 1888	Swineherd, Brittany, 1888
The clog-maker, 1888	The first flowers, 1888	The Vision after the Sermon, 1888
The wave, 1888	Upstream of Pont-Aven, 1888	Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers, 1888
View of Pont-Aven from Lezaven, 1888	Washerwomen, 1888	Washerwomen at Roubine du Roi, 1888
Willow by the Aven, 1888	Young woman at the window, 1888	At the black rocks, 1889
Beach at Le Pouldu, 1889	Bonjour, Monsieur Gauguin, 1889	Breton Boy in a Landscape with Goose, 1889
Breton Girls by the sea, 1889	Breton Landscape – Fields by the Sea, 1889	Brittany landscape with women carrying sack, 1889
Calvaire breton, 1889	Flutist on the cliffs, 1889	Haymaking, 1889
Human misery, 1889	In Brittany, 1889	Jeanne d’Arc, or Breton girl spinning, 1889
Landscape at Le Pouldu, the isolated house, 1889	Landscape with two breton women, 1889	Nostalgic Promenade, 1889
Portrait of Meyer de Haan by Lamplight, 1889	Portrait of two children, 1889	Rocks on the coast, 1889
Schuffenecker Family, 1889	Seated breton girl, 1889	Self Portrait with Halo, 1889
Still life Ripipont, 1889	Still Life with a Fan, c.1889	Still Life with Apples, a Pear and a Ceramic Portrait Jug, 1889
Still life with onions, beetroot and Japanese print, 1889	Still Life with Peaches, 1889	The Agony in the Garden, 1889
The Beautiful Angel, 1889	The creek, Le Pouldu, 1889	The Ham, 1889
The Kelp Gatherers, 1889	The large tree, 1889	The milkmaid, 1889
The red cow, 1889	The swineherd, 1889	The willows, 1889
The Wooden Gate, 1889	View of the beach at Bellangenai, 1889	Willows, 1889
Yellow Christ, 1889	Yellow Haystacks, 1889	Young breton by the sea, 1889
Young Breton Woman, 1889	Self portrait with mandolin, 1889	A blue roof (Farm in Pouldu), 1890
Haystacks in Brittany, 1890	Houses in le Pouldu, 1890	Kelp gatherers, 1890
Landscape at Le Pouldu, 1890	M. Loulou, 1890	Mimi and her Cat, 1890
Negreries Martinique, 1890	Nirvana, Portrait of Jacob Meyer de Haan, 1890	Peasant Woman and Cows in a Landscape, 1890
Portrait of woman against the Cezanne’s still life with apples, 1890	Redheaded woman and sunflowers, 1890	Seaside harvest, 1890
Self Portrait, 1890	Self Portrait with the Yellow Christ, 1890	Still life with apples and green vase, 1890
A big tree, 1891	A man with axe, 1891	Black pigs, 1891
Brooding Woman, 1891	Come here, 1891	Fire Dance, 1891
Flowers of France, 1891	In the Vanilla Grove, Man and Horse, 1891	Landscape with black pigs and a crouching Tahitian, 1891
Melancholic, 1891	Mother and Daughter, c.1891	Orana Maria (We Hail Thee Mary), 1891
Portrait of Atiti, c.1891	Portrait of Suzanne Bambridge, 1891	Road in Tahiti, 1891
Tahitian woman with flower in her hair, 1891	Tahitian women, 1891	The fisherwomen of Tahiti, 1891
The large tree, 1891	The lemon picker, 1891	The little valley, c.1891
The Meal (The Bananas), 1891	The Three Huts, 1891	Under the Pandanus, 1891
Woman with a Flower, 1891	Young Man with a Flower Behind his Ear, 1891	Arearea I, 1892
At the Foot of the Mountain, 1892	By the Sea, 1892	Cabin under the trees, 1892
Joyousness, 1892	Landscape with peacocks, 1892	Landscape with three trees, 1892
Olden times, 1892	She goes down to the fresh water, 1892	Still life with Tahitian oranges, 1892
Tahitian Scene, 1892	Tahitian village, 1892	Tahitian women under the palms, 1892
Taperaa Mahana, 1892	The house of singing, 1892	The moment of truth I, 1892
The morning, 1892	The rider in front of the hub, 1892	The sacred mountain, 1892
Two sisters, 1892	We Shall Not Go to Market Today, 1892	What’s New?, 1892
When are you Getting Married?, 1892	Woman with a Mango, 1892	Women at the banks of river, 1892
Women at the riverside, 1892	The dreaming, 1892	The hibiskus tree, 1892
The Royal End, 1892	Among the lillies, 1893	Barbarian music, 1893
Floral and vegetable motifs, 1893	Mysterious Water, 1893	Portrait of Louis Roy, 1893
Self Portrait in a Hat, c.1893	Self Portrait with the Idol, c.1893	Still life with mangoes, c.1893
Tahitian mountains, 1893	Tahitian woman near river, 1893	The Ancestors of Tehamana, 1893
The Messengers of Oro, 1893	The moment of truth II, 1893	Noa Noa Suite: Delightful Land, c.1893
A breton landscape. David’s mill., 1894	Breton village under snow, 1894	Christmas night, 1894
Farm in Brittany, 1894	Flowers in a fruit bowl, 1894	Orana Maria (Hail Maria), 1894
Paysannes bretones, 1894	Portrait of a mother, 1894	Portrait of William Molard, 1894
Reclining Tahitian Women, 1894	Sacred Spring, 1894	Self portrait with palette, 1894
Siesta, 1894	The Cellist, 1894	The guitar player, 1894
Village in the snow, 1894	Young Christian Girl, 1894	The child, 1895
A Canoe (Tahitian Family), 1896	Baby (Nativity of Tahitian Christ), 1896	Nativity, 1896
Portrait of a Young Woman, Vaite (Jeanne) Goupil, 1896	Scene from Tahitian Life, 1896	Self Portrait, 1896
Still life with teapot and fruits, 1896	Coming and going, Martinique, 1897	Vase of flowers, 1897
Coming and going, Martinique, 1897	Man Picking Fruit from a Tree, 1897	Landscape, 1897
The Bathers, 1897	Idol, 1898	Tahitian pastorale, 1898
The White Horse, 1898	Landscape, 1899	Tahitian woman and boy, 1899
The month of Maria, 1899	Three Tahitian Women against a Yellow Background, 1899	Three Tahitians, 1899
Flight, 1901	Landscape with three figures, 1901	Marquesan landscape with horses, 1901
Still Life with l’Esperance, 1901	Still Life with Sunflowers on an armchair, 1901	Tahitian idyll, 1901
Tahitian woman and two children, 1901	Riders on the beach, 1902	Riders on the beach II, 1902
Still Life with Parrots, 1902	The Sorcerer of Hiva Oa, 1902	Self portrait with spectacles, 1903
Bouquet of flowers	Hut under the coconut palms	The Coast of Bellangenay