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Mahana no Atua (Day of the God) by Paul Gauguin

Mahana no Atua (Day of the God)
Paul Gauguin
1894
Oil on canvas
Post-Impressionism
Art Institute of Chicago

Paul Gauguin started his career as a stockbroker, only painting in his spare time, but left his career in finance in 1883 to pursue his passion of painting full-time. He is most famous for his paintings from Tahiti, where he lived 10 of the last 12 years of his life.

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