Definition of Gauguin

1. Noun. French Post-impressionist painter who worked in the South Pacific (1848-1903).

Exact synonyms: Paul Gauguin
Generic synonyms: Painter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gauguin

Gateshead
Gatesian
Gateway City
Gateway to the West
Gathas
Gathic
Gatling
Gatling gun
Gatling guns
Gaucher cells
Gaudi
Gaudi i Cornet
Gauguin (current term)
Gauguinesque
Gaul
Gaulish
Gaullism
Gaullisms
Gaullist
Gaullists
Gauls
Gaultheria hispidula
Gaultheria procumbens
Gaultheria shallon
Gauri
Gauss' sign
Gauss gun

Literary usage of Gauguin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of æsthetics by Julius Meier-Graefe (1908)
"It closed with the horrible catastrophe Gauguin has himself recorded, ... According to Gauguin, it was Van Gogh who profited most by their acquaintance. ..."

2. Modern Art: Being a Contribution to a New System of æsthetics by Julius Meier-Graefe (1908)
"It closed with the horrible catastrophe Gauguin has himself recorded, ... According to Gauguin, it was Van Gogh who profited most by their acquaintance. ..."

3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1920)
"PAUL Gauguin NOA NOA The great French painter's own story of his flight from Europe and his Ufe among the natives of Tahiti, in the Sooth Seas, ..."

4. Art and I by Charles Lewis Hind (1920)
"The second Gauguin entry refers to the purchase, by Professor Sadler of Leeds University, of a group of magnificent Gauguins, including "L'Esprit Veille," ..."

5. Modern painting, its tendency and meaning by Willard Huntington Wright (1915)
"While still in a banker's office, and before he had met Pissarro, Gauguin had painted as an amateur; and as early as 1873 he had exposed a landscape. ..."

6. Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker (1910)
"At Pont-Aven in 1888, between trips made to Martinique and Provence, Gauguin had attained mastery of himself; Cezanne had taught him simplicity; Degas, ..."

7. White Shadows in the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien (1919)
"Visit of Le Moine; the story of Paul Gauguin; his house, and a search for his grave beneath the white cross of Calvary. ..."

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