Gauguin, one of the leading French painters of the Postimpressionist period, whose development of a conceptual method of representation was a decisive step for 20th-century art. After spending a short period with Vincent van Gogh in Arles, Gauguin increasingly abandoned imitative art for expressiveness through colour.His masterpieces include the early Vision After the Sermon and Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

 This book is a collection of his paintings.

 On 8 May 1903, having lost a futile and fatally exhausting battle with colonial officials, threatened with a ruinous fine and an imprisonment for allegedly instigating the natives to mutiny and slandering the authorities, after a week of acute physical sufferings endured in utter isolation, an artist who had devoted himself to glorifying the pristine harmony of Oceania's tropical nature and its people died. There is bitter irony in the name given by Gauguin to his house at Atuona -"Maison du Jouir" (House of Pleasure) - and in the words carved on its wood reliefs, Soyez amoureuses et vous serez heureuses (Be in love and you will be happy) and Soyez mysterieuses (Be mysterious).

 In his regular report to Paris, the bishop wrote: "The only noteworthy event here has been the sudden death of a contemptible individual named Gauguin, a reputed artist but an enemy of God and everything that is decent.'" It was only twenty years later that the artist's name appeared on his tombstone, and even that belated honour was due to a curious circumstance: Gauguin's grave was found by a painter belonging to the Society of American Fakirs.

 It was only due to the presence of a few travellers and colonists who knew something about art and to the ill-concealed greediness of his recent enemies who, for all their hate, did not shrink from making money on his works, that part of Gauguin's artistic legacy escaped destruction. For example, the gendarme of Atuona who had personally supervised the sale and destroyed with his own hands some of the artist's works which supposedly offended his chaste morals, was not above purloining a few pictures and later upon his return to Europe, opened a kind of Gauguin museum. As the result of all this, not one of Gauguin's works remains in Tahiti.

1.Snow Effects (Snow in Pue Cancel), 1882-1883.

2.Dieppe Beach, 1885.

3.5athers in Dieppe, 1885,

4.Self-Portrait "to my friend Carriere", 1886.

5.Self-Portrait at Golgotha, 1886,

6.Self-Portrait, "Les Miserables", 1888.

7.Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers, 1888.

8.Old Women in Aries (in the Aries Hospital Garden), 1888.

9.Cafe at Aries, 1888.

10.Fighting Children, 1888.

11.Bretons and Calf, 1888.

12.The Vision after the Sermon or Jacob Fighting with the Angel,

13.Blue Trees, 1888.

14.Human Miseries (Vineyards), 1888.

15.Fruit, 1888.

16.The Yellow Christ, 1889.

17.Hello, Mr Gauguin, 1889.

18.Self-Portrait with the Yellow Christ, 1889.

19.Portrait of Meyer de Haan, 1889.

20.Wrach Collectors, 1889.

21.Breton Children on the seaside, 1889.

22.The Schuffenecker Family, 1889.

23.Te avae no maria, The Month of Mary, 1889.

24.Man with an Axe, 1891.

25.Young Tahitian Man (Young Man with a Flower), 1891.

26.Fatata te moua, 1891.

27.Faaturama, 1891.

28.The Parau Parau (Conversation), 1891.

29.Te tiare farani (The Flowers of France), 1891.

30.Parau nate varua ino (Evil's Words), 1892.

31.Matamoe, Landscape with Peacocks, I892.

32.Arearea (Happiness), 1892.

33.Va'iraumati tel oa (Her Name is Vairaumati), 1892.

34.Aha oe feii? (What! Are You Jealous?), 1892.

35.Pastorales tahitiennes, 1893,

36.Nafae faa ipopo? When will you Marry? 1882.

37.Manao Tupapau (the Soul of the Dead Ones is Awake), 1892.

38.E haere oe I hia? Where are You Going? 1892.

39.Fatata te miti (On the Seashore), 1892.

40.Hina Tefatou (The Moon and the Earth), 1893.

41.Otahi (Alone), 1893.

42.Eu haere ia oe, Where are You Going?, I893.

43.Merahi metua no Tehamana, 1893.

44.Self-Portrait with a Hat, winter 1893-1894.

45.Aita tamari vahine Judith te parari, 1893-1894.

46.Self-Portrait with a Palette, ca. 1894.

47.Nave nave moe. Sacred spring (on Sweet Dreams), 1894.

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