Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?
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Paul Gauguin
Born in Paris in 1848, Gauguin abandoned finance to paint and sailed to Tahiti seeking a primitive paradise. His flat color planes and symbolic subjects bridge Impressionism and early modernism.
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