Earthly Paradise, Paul Gauguin, 1888
Paul Gauguin, retratoPaul GauguinFrancia, 1848–1903

Earthly Paradise

1888 · Sculpture

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Combining painting, sculpture, and carpentry, this unique object was created collaboratively by Paul Gauguin and his younger contemporary Émile Bernard. Their artistic experiments, often undertaken in the spirit of friendly competition, challenged hierarchical distinctions between fine art, grounded in aesthetics, and decorative art, associated with functionality. Bernard carved the left panel and possibly the bottom panel. Both artists incorporated animals, trees, and people from village life in Brittany, France, motifs they also used in their paintings. The figures on the right panel were inspired by Gauguin’s trip the previous year to the Caribbean island of Martinique. This visit informed his later decision to leave France, which ultimately led him to Tahiti.

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En la vida de Paul Gauguin

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  1. 1870s–1891 · Lugar de trabajo

    Paris

  2. summer 1886

    First Summer in Pont-Aven, Meeting Laval

    Gauguin spent the summer of 1886 in the artists' colony of Pont-Aven in Brittany, drawn there by the cheapness of life; he enjoyed unexpected success among the young artists and met Charles Laval, his future companion on the journey to Panama and Martinique.

  3. 1886

    Eighth (Last) Impressionist Exhibition

    In May 1886 Gauguin showed 19 paintings and a wooden relief at the eighth and last Impressionist exhibition; that same year he broke decisively with Pissarro, rejecting Seurat's pointillism.

  4. 1886–1891 · Lugar de trabajo

    Pont-Aven

  5. 1887 · Lugar de trabajo

    Martinique

  6. October – December 1888

    Nine Weeks with Van Gogh in Arles

    In 1888, at Theo's insistence, Gauguin worked for nine weeks with Vincent van Gogh in his Yellow House in Arles. Their relationship deteriorated: on the evening of 23 December 1888, according to Gauguin's later account, Vincent came at him with a razor and then cut off his own ear; Gauguin left Arles, and they never saw each other again.

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