Paul Gauguin´s life is as exciting as his own works, due to his constant aim to discover new borders over the vie bourgeoise he knew in Paris, over the limits of his admired Pissarro´s impresionism and over the realism he refused with his tropical simbolism full of colour and love for the exotic, over his family man´s life between France and Denmark going from a bad job to a new one even worse.
An outsider of his times, husband and father, stockbroker in Paris until 1882, hardaware salesman later and finally missed in Martinica and finally Tahiti, where he found the colour, exotism, warmth and erotism settled on canvas. Everything, with a close friendship and mutual admiration with Vincent Van Gogh.
Gauguin (1848-1903) lived his last days in a solitude deeply searched, barely accompanied by his last young lover in the most hidden hut he could find to get away from the world. However, the magnificence of his work is letting us enjoy his art at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid (Spain), until January 13, where it is possible to see paintings by Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee or August Macke.
