Nature morte aux pamplemousses gauguin biography
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Nature morte aux pamplemousses [Still Life with Grapefruits]
In July , Paul Gauguin made his second and last voyage to Tahiti, leaving France once and for all.
The reasons that led him to this decision are the lack of recognition in his homeland, financial difficulties and the constant desire to flee.
Nature morte aux pamplemousses gauguin biography
Despite his health problems and a suicide attempt in December , he was extremely productive: he was drawing, painting, sculpting, engraving, writing. In addition to Tahitian women, Gauguin painted many still lifes, a rather conventional subject; however, he treated it by setting his own pictorial concerns such as surface division, colour balance, treatment of volumes.
In this approach the great admiration for Paul Cézanne and his still lifes is evident.
It is believed that Gauguin painted Still life with grapefruits, which for many years was entitled Still life with apples and flowers , in Experts came to this conclusion based on the arrangement of objects on the leather trunk,