Paul Gauguin was a French post-Impressionist artist. Underappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. Gauguin’s art became popular after his death, partially from the efforts of art dealer Ambroise Vollard, who organized exhibitions of his work late in his career, as well as assisting in organizing two important posthumous exhibitions in Paris. Many of his paintings were in the possession of Russian collector Sergei Shchukin and other important collections.
He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer. His bold experimentation with color led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art, while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential proponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms.
- Brooding Woman (1891)
- A Tahitian Woman with a Flower in Her Hair (1891–92)
- Sacred Spring (1894)
- Woman Holding a Fruit (1893)
- Woman With a Flower (1891)
- Night Café Arles (1888)
- Hut Under the Coconut Palms
- The Swineherd (1889)
- Woman With a Mango (1892)
- Are You Jealous (1892)
- She Goes Down to the Fresh Water Haere Pape (1892)
- View of Pont Aven from Lezaven (1888)
- Tahitian Women on the Beach (1891)
- The Vision after the Sermon Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (1888)
- Tahitian Pastorale (1898)
- Landscape with Peacocks (1892)
- Come Here (1891)
- Washerwomen at Roubine du Roi (1888)