Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) is a leading French Post-Impressionist artist who is not well appreciated until after his death.

He is an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer.

His bold experimentation with coloring leads directly to the Synthetist style of modern art, while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paves the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral.

He is also an influential proponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms.

Later recognized for his experimental use of colors and synthetist style that are distinguishably different from Impressionism,

hHs work is influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse.

Gauguin’s art becomes popular after his death and many of his paintings are in the possession of Russian collector Sergei Shchukin.