Full name: Eugenie-Henri- Paul Gauguin Born: June 7, 1847 In Paris, France Died: May 8, 1903 in Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas, French Polynesia. His early years were not spent in the field of art but as a merchant marine then as a stock broker and the wealth that came with the it until the market crashed. It was at this time he was introduced to art by the business man Gustav Arosa who Gauguin’s mother had entrusted with her family’s welfare at her death. Arosa introduced Gauguin to his future wife, a Danish woman named Mette Sophia Gad. They had…