The Impressionists

Tim Marlow looks at the painter Paul Gauguin, whose life was as colorful and varied as his painting. Through some of his most famous paintings we explore Gauguin’s extraordinary life as well as his attempt to escape civilization.

In many ways Vincent Van Gogh has become the most celebrated, and certainly most mythologized artist in history, as the misunderstood genius who died unknown and unloved and sold only one painting in his lifetime.