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| Paul
Gauguin’s The Yellow Christ (1889) |
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| On
loan from the Albright Knox Gallery (Buffalo); |
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| Centerville
Museum of Art |
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| Paul Gauguin was born on June 7, 1848, in
Paris |
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| and lived in
Lima, Peru, from 1851 to 1855. He |
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| served in the
merchant marines from 1865 to 1871 |
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| and traveled in
the tropics. Gauguin later worked as |
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| a stockbroker’s
clerk in Paris but painted in his free |
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| time. |
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