Las sandalias de Ulises
Hermitage Museum
Gauguin Fe, a French post-impressionist painter, was one of the most important 19th century. His most famous paintings are painted in Polynesia, where, sick and ruined, he decided to flee Europe and civilization to discover and capture new things in his paintings. After going back to France without money, he received an inheritance from his uncle and decided to stay permanently in Polynesia. In Tahiti, he met Tehura, which would become his model. He was very inspired and painted 70 canvases in just a few months. But after some years of happiness, administrative and personal problems, he sank. He also had some major health issues: A leg injury that failed to heal and syphilis.
Towards the final years of his life he found a partner and had a son with a young woman of the Marquesas, but later he also contracted leprosy. In 1897 he attempted to kill himself, survived and only with a small pension. He later died on May 9, 1903. In the Hermitage you can find "Pastors Tahitians",and "Woman holding a fruit" among other works of his.
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