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Definition of Gauguin
1. Noun. French Post-impressionist painter who worked in the South Pacific (1848-1903).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gauguin
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. ..."