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The Life and Art of Paul Gauguin
2008-03-02 17:26:00 French painter Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848 and then moved to Peru with his family when he was only three years old. Growing up in Peru provided much excitement and had a great impact on him as little boy. When he turned 17, he joined the Navy and ...
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What do Martha Stewart, Paul Gauguin, and Brian Dennehy have in common?
2008-02-03 02:51:00 Entrepreneur Martha Stewart, actor Brian Dennehy and French impressionist painter Paul Gauguin were all stockbrokers early on in their lives! In fact, Martha Stewart and Brian Dennehy both worked for the same Wall Street firm (no longer in existence).From what I have read, the firm went under due to a scandal that involved some of the firm's principles receiving kickbacks from a company whose stock they were selling. I was not aware of Stewart's history on Wall Street and I'll have to re-read all the articles about her insider trading conviction!Stewart's conviction was for selling shares of ImClone stock on inside information. From what I understand, her daughter had dated the CEO of ImClone and he and other company executives sold off many shares the day before an FDA ruling on one of their drugs was announced (in which a certain drug was not approved for use). But it seems that Stewart received the inside information during a call from her stockbroker's assistant in which he...
Gauguin is a Fauguin - Fake Faun Gauguin at Chicago Museum!
2007-12-12 22:43:00 A Paul Gauguin sculpture hanging in the Art Institute of Chicago museum for a decade has been determined today to be fake! Today, the museum confessed the scandal - It ain’t a Gauguin, it’s a Faux-guin. “The Faun” is a fake. “No one could think of any other instance in which anything like this happened here,” ...
Revealed: Art Institute of Chicago Gauguin sculpture is fake
2007-12-12 20:59:00  The Art Newspaper revealed today that a Gauguin sculpture bought by the Art Institute of Chicago ten years ago and described by the museum as a major rediscovery and one of its most important acquisitions of the last 20 years, is a fake. The work was made recently in the north of England. Last month three members of the Greenhalgh family based in Bolton, Greater Manchester, were sentenced over charges relating to the forgery of the Egyptian Amarna Princess sculpture, bought by Bolton Museum in 2003. Shaun Greenhalgh, aged 46, was sentenced to 4 years and 8 months. His mother Olive, 82, received a suspended sentence, and his wheelchair-bound father George, 84, will be sentenced after medical reports. On 26 November Scotland Yard told The Art Newspaper that a forged Gauguin ceramic of The Faun had also been sold by the Greenhalgh family. The police said that the Gauguin’s “current whereabouts are unknownâ€. We then tracked it down to Chicago. The Faun had been consigned to Sot...
Revealed: Art Institute of Chicago Gauguin sculpture is fake
2007-12-12 20:59:00  The Art Newspaper revealed today that a Gauguin sculpture bought by the Art Institute of Chicago ten years ago and described by the museum as a major rediscovery and one of its most important acquisitions of the last 20 years, is a fake. The work was made recently in the north of England. Last month three members of the Greenhalgh family based in Bolton, Greater Manchester, were sentenced over charges relating to the forgery of the Egyptian Amarna Princess sculpture, bought by Bolton Museum in 2003. Shaun Greenhalgh, aged 46, was sentenced to 4 years and 8 months. His mother Olive, 82, received a suspended sentence, and his wheelchair-bound father George, 84, will be sentenced after medical reports. On 26 November Scotland Yard told The Art Newspaper that a forged Gauguin ceramic of The Faun had also been sold by the Greenhalgh family. The police said that the Gauguin’s “current whereabouts are unknownâ€. We then tracked it down to Chicago. The Faun had been consigned to Sot...
Paul Gauguin
2007-11-10 09:38:00 Paul Gauguin’s famous guise as the original Western savage was his own embellishment upon reality. No mere bohemianism, that persona was, for him, the modern sequel to the “natural man” constructed by his idol, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Gauguin’s rejection of the industrialized West for an earthly paradise embraced, in artistic terms, all handmade arts and crafts as equivalent creative endeavors. As his own ideal artist-artisan, he produced an abundant, cross-fertilizing body of work in many media, dissolving the traditional boundaries between high art and decoration. Portrait of Vincent Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers, Arles 1888 The artist and his older sister Marie were born in Paris (he in 1848) to highly literate upper-middle-class parents from France and Peru. Gauguin’s early life was shaped by his family’s liberal political activism and their blood ties spanning the Old and New Worlds. His father was a republican journalist; his mate...
Paul Gauguin
2007-09-16 08:33:00 Paul GauguinInformación de Artistas AmericanosPintor postimpresionista francés, cuyos colores exuberantes, formas bidimensionales planas y temática contribuyeron a dar forma al arte moderno. Nació en París el 7 de junio de 1848, en una familia liberal de clase media, su madre era hija de la célebre socialista y feminista Flora Tristán. Después de una juventud aventurera, que incluye una estancia de cuatro años en Perú con su familia y un empleo en la marina mercante francesa, se convirtió en un agente de bolsa de París con éxito, llevando una confortable vida burguesa con su mujer, la danesa Mette-Sophie Gad, y sus cinco hijos. En 1874, después de conocer al pintor Camille Pissarro y ver la primera exposición de los impresionistas, se hizo coleccionista y pintor aficionado. Expuso con los impresionistas en 1876, 1880, 1881, 1882 y 1886. En 1882, debido a la quiebra de la Bolsa, decidió convertir su afición a la pintura en oficio. Un año después, su mujer e hijos se fueron a vivir co...
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Paul Gauguin
2007-09-06 08:42:00 Paul GauguinPintor postimpresionista francés, cuyos colores exuberantes, formas bidimensionales planas y temática contribuyeron a dar forma al arte moderno. Nació en París el 7 de junio de 1848, en una familia liberal de clase media, su madre era hija de la célebre socialista y feminista Flora Tristán. Después de una juventud aventurera, que incluye una estancia de cuatro años en Perú con su familia y un empleo en la marina mercante francesa, se convirtió en un agente de bolsa de París con éxito, llevando una confortable vida burguesa con su mujer, la danesa Mette-Sophie Gad, y sus cinco hijos. En 1874, después de conocer al pintor Camille Pissarro y ver la primera exposición de los impresionistas, se hizo coleccionista y pintor aficionado. Expuso con los impresionistas en 1876, 1880, 1881, 1882 y 1886. En 1882, debido a la quiebra de la Bolsa, decidió convertir su afición a la pintura en oficio. Un año después, su mujer e hijos se fueron a vivir con la familia de ella a Dinamarca. ...
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