“What seems grey is a compound of light shades that a trained eye divines.”
Paul Gauguin – hand-painted reproductions on canvas
This category holds 81 works by Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), each one a 100% hand-painted oil painting reproduction on canvas, painted to order in the size you choose. Prices start at 108 EUR. Never a print: every canvas is painted by a painter, brushstroke by brushstroke.
What a hand-painted reproduction is
A reproduction is a repetition of an existing work of art. Ours is not a print but a new painting: a painter lays the same subject, the same composition and the same colours as the original onto canvas in oil, with their own brushstroke. That is why a hand-painted reproduction has a raised surface and a body of paint that a print cannot carry.
Every painting is begun only after the order is placed, so each one is painted separately and none is held in stock. Before dispatch we send you a photograph of the finished painting for approval; if you want corrections to colour or detail we make them, and we ship only once you have approved it.
Brittany, Tahiti and the Marquesas
Gauguin’s work reads as a journey south. In Brittany, at Pont-Aven, he abandoned the Impressionist breaking-up of light and began painting in broad outlined planes – The Yellow Christ and Breton Girls Dancing were made there. On Tahiti, where he sailed in 1891, the colours turned symbolic: Arearea, Ia Orana Maria, Nevermore. His most ambitious canvas, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, was also painted on Tahiti; his last years were spent in the Marquesas Islands.
From the same family of late rebels you will also find Vincent van Gogh, with whom Gauguin spent a stormy autumn at Arles, and Paul Cézanne, who built form out of colour.
Read more about Gauguin
How a stockbroker became a painter, and what Synthetism is, is told in Gauguin’s life and technique. What each painting shows, where it hangs and what is worth looking at in it is explained in the guide to his most famous works.
Frequently asked questions
What does Arearea mean?
Arearea is a Tahitian word meaning joy or amusement, and the 1892 painting hangs in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.
What does Nevermore mean?
Nevermore is the English title Gauguin wrote onto the 1897 canvas now held by the Courtauld Gallery in London, in which a bird perches on the window sill.
What is a hand-painted reproduction?
It is a repetition of an existing work made with a brush: a painter paints it in oil on canvas instead of printing it.
How many Gauguin paintings do you offer?
The Paul Gauguin category holds 81 of his works, each one a hand-painted oil painting reproduction on canvas.