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Paul Gauguin was born in Paris on June 7, 1848, into a liberal middle-class family. ... “Dull, provincial and thoroughly, bourgeois, Orleans was a depressing contrast to colorful, subtropical Peru, and Paul hated it.” When Gauguin was seventeen he was determined to look for something more intriguing, and imaginative than Orleans. ... In 1873 Gauguin met a young twenty three year old woman named Mette Gad in The Pension, a place where he came to eat an occasional meal. ... While working at Bertain he met Emile Schuffeneckner, and he convinced Gauguin to accompany him to a few art galleries. ... Gauguin was already interested in art from his guardian’s, Gustave Arosa’s collection. ... ” Gauguin was fundamentally self-taught. ... In 1882 the stock market crashed, and Gauguin’s job was insecure.
Approximate Word count = 600
Approximate Pages = 2.4
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