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With
his good income as a stockbroker, Gauguin could
afford to buy several paintings by Manet, Monet,
Renoir and other Impressionists. His own artistic
activities were restricted to painting over
the weekends. Later he attended evening classes
at the Colarossi Academy. He was assisted and
influenced by Pissarro and later by Paul Cézanne.
In 1876 a landscape painting by Gauguin was
accepted for the Salon d'Automne. Paul Gauguin
was now 28 years old.
In 1984 Gauguin's life changed dramatically.
At the age of 35 Paul Gauguin gave up his life
as a banker and moved from Paris to Rouen. Financial
difficulties of the company which employed him,
may have made this step easier. His wife Mette,
upset with her husband's plans, went back to
her parents in Denmark. In 1885 Paul Gauguin
separated from his wife and left his 5 children.
Gauguin led an unsteady life as a painter and
printmaker.
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