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A unique

reconstruction SPECIAL EDITION of the establishment of Rembrandt’s

masterpiece. Golden Bookje THE GOLDEN WEDDING Not to miss! Laureates JAN PAUL SCHUTTEN Marten and Oopjen and MARTIJN VAN La niña del make their own pretty vestido dorado DER LINDEN have Jan Paul Schutten Marten en Oopjen go marry! En than they have to look made a magnificent ilustraciones MartiJn van der linden good. Zo gaan ze allebei on path om de sjiekste kleren te La niña Little Golden Book in del vestido dorado buyen. Oopjen wil telkens het mooiste van het mooiste. En Marten? Die wil het duurste van het duurste… collaboration with the Los miembros de la milicia están nerviosos porque van a ser retratados en un cuadro por Rembrandt, el pintor más talentoso y más famoso del país. Rijksmuseum about ¿Quién estará adelante en el cuadro? ¿El más valiente, el más listo o el más divertido? Gouden Griffel winnaar Jan Paul Schutten en Gouden Ana, la niña del vestido dorado, descubrirá the High Society of que para el gran maestro lo importante es aquello que no se ve a simple vista. Penseel winnaar Martijn van der Linden maken in samen- werking met het Rijksmuseum een prachtig Gouden the Golden Age. With www.panamericanaeditorial.com

ISBN 978-958304478-6 ISBN 978-958-30-4478-6 Boekje over de High Society van de Gouden Eeuw met atmospheric drawings sfeervolle teke ningen die grotendeels geïnspireerd zijn which are inspired 9789583044786 op de werken van de grote meesters uit het Rijksmuseum. by the big masters of the Rijksmuseum, this book could be seen as

Девочка по имени Агнес заходит в гости к Рембрандту как a masterpiece. Their раз когда тот собирается нарисовать королевских стрел- ков. Да тут же целая толпа людей! Как они все поместят- ся на одной картине? Кого художник поставит впереди, а кто будет стоять сзади? Может быть, это будет самый previous Little Golden умный стрелок? Или самый храбрый? А, может быть, са- Девочка мый смешной? Картина Рембрандта «Ночной дозор» - одно из самых за- ISBN 9789047625339 Book The Girl With гадочных полотен XVII века. Она была написана по зака- зу Стрелкового общества — отряда гражданского опол- чения Нидерландов, и должна была стать классическим в золотом платье парадным портретом. Но художник решил изменить пра- вилам и все на картине пришло в движение: барабанщик The Golden Dress отбивает дробь, прапорщик разворачивает знамя, собака лает. К тому же, на картине, помимо самих стрелков, по- явились никому неизвестные персонажи. И самая таин- ственная из них - девочка в золотом платье. Девоч К а в золотом платье got awarded and got Издательство «Пешком в историю» – это детские книги, настольные игры, подарочные наборы, карнавальные ко- стюмы и праздники, посвященные различным историче- ским эпохам. translated into multiple

Серия «ИДЁМ В МУЗЕЙ» расскажет вам о том, какие бывают музеи и что в них можно найти, а ещё – как самому собрать languages. коллекцию или создать шедевр. Книги со всего мира про самые интересные музеи!

www.peshkombooks.ru +7 495 787 05 30 The Girl gb-oopjen-cover-eng.inddin the 1 The golden wedding 28-02-18 15:00 Golden Dress WRITTEN BY JAN PAUL SCHUTTEN ILLUSTRATED BY MARTIJN VAN DER LINDEN WRITTEN BY JAN PAUL SCHUTTEN ILLUSTRATED BY MARTIJN VAN DER LINDEN Rembrandts famous paintings featuring Marten and Oopjen play the main role in this beautiful picture book. They are getting married! And of course This is Netty. She wears her finest clothes. Netty’s mother combed her they have to look all dressed up. hair for hours and the neighbor has put a beautiful little golden crown on her head. But why does she look so beautiful? They are both going out to go and find the fanciest outfits in the country. Oopjen desires the most beautiful dress, shoes and jewelry. And Marten? For The Girl in the Golden Dress both Jan Paul Schutten and Martijn van He only wants the most expensive… der Linden did thorough research into the Nightwatch and the living and painting in the 17th century. This pays off in a beautiful book filled with facts about the world famous civic guard and refers to several famous paintings from Rembrandt’s time.

Pages: 28 Age: 4+ Pages: 32 Rights sold to Japan, South America and Russia Age: 4+ 4 THE MOUSE MANSION THE MOUSE MANSION 5

NEW! The harbour is the newest book in world wide bestselling book series ‘Mouse Mansion’

Book rights sold to: THE harbour Also in this series • Australia • Austria CREATED BY STUDIO SCHAAPMAN • Brasil • Catalunya Sam and Julia are visiting Grandpa the sailor after school. He’s working in the • China port. There is so much going on because is ‘the week of the port’. This means • Czech Republic that a lot of ships bring back their harvest from all parts of the world. To . Finland celebrate the safe homecoming a festive boat race is being organised. Grandpa • France and Uncle John help Sam and Julia so they can join the race. While wandering • Friesland • Germany through the Mouse Mansion they find lots • Italy of usefull things to build a fantasic boat! . Iran • Japan The boat seems to float perfectly but • Korea during the race something go wrong. • Netherlands But Julia never gives up and Sam has • New Zealand a solution for every problem… but if • Poland winning is still an option? • Russia • Spain The fifth big Mouse Mansion book • South-Africa • Switzerland has spectacular pictures and is a • Turkey beautiful story about perseverance • Ukraine and friendship. • Vietnam

Pages: 64 Size: 24,5 x 28,5 cm Age: 4+ 6 NEW PICTURE BOOKS NEW PICTURE BOOKS 7

FROM THE SAME ILLUSTRATOR

MARK HAAYEMA writes children’s books about contemporary themes like dementia, homosexuality and in this case xenophobia. Without being moralistic through his books he inspires people to talk about these subjects.

MEDY OBERENDORFF is an immensely patient illustrator; she zooms in on the flora and fauna around us and illustrates it with incredible detail. the Most Beautiful She shows natures Pete the parakeet beauty by her refined About strange birds with odd feathers Sound In The World and detailed style. She WRITTEN BY PAULIEN CORNELISSE earlier illustrated the WRITTEN BY MARK HAAYEMA ILLUSTRATED BY EMANUEL WIEMANS acclaimed success: ILLUSTRATED BY MEDY OBERENDORFF The wondrous insect With her usual humor Niko loves to play the triangle because it makes the most beautiful sound book. George built a beautiful aviary from netting and wood. The aviary has and well-chosen in the world. PING. But then the peace gets disturbed by a man who is enough room for a hundred birds. At least. But he doesn’t have that much words PAULIEN coming his way with a bassoon. VOMP. When a girl also arrives with a birds. Not yet. He has one. A parakeet called Pete. CORNELISSE creates kettledrum and two ladies emerge with violins it creates Pete gets used to his home quite easily. But then new birds come to live in a beautiful story which a cacophony of sound. PING, VOMP, ZWIE, DOEM. It FROM THE SAME AUTHOR show the importance doesn’t sound good at all, until Niko suggests to play ‘his’ aviary and he doesn’t like it one bit. Is this also something you can get of music and playing together. And then an orchestra arises, and oh does it used to? Is it possible to become friends with these strange birds with odd together. The sound beautiful! feathers and habits? beautiful and hilarious illustrations are by EMANUEL WIEMANS.

Pages: 28 Age: 3+ Pages: 40 Size: 23,1 x 28,7 cm Age: 3+ 8 PICTURE BOOKS, ILLUSTRATED BY NOËLLE SMIT NEW PICTURE BOOK, ILLUSTRATED BY NOËLLE SMIT 9

Rico, the brave Erik van Os – Noëlle Smit Sock Monkey WRITTEN BY FIONA REMPT ILLUSTRATED BY NOËLLE SMIT

Rico is a monkey with extremely long arms and legs. He’s the bravest monkey in the world, because he is never afraid. Rico is born in a factory, like most cuddly toys. banaan Pages: 32 Age: 4+

The naughty princess ILLUSTRATED BY NOËLLE SMIT Vieze liedjes met CD Not only are ERIK VAN & stoute versjes No classic fairy tales series has ever been OS his texts cleverly depicted so extensively. Twenty five of the funny. NOELLE SMIT most loved stories by Grimm, Andersen succeeds to make a and Perault are retold and beautifully hilarious narrative illustrated in this 32-pages book series picture book through for the smallest, in cooperation with Efteling, the images, with lots of Europe’s #2 popular theme park. hidden discoveries.

Pages: 32 Age: 4+ I Wish We Had A Shark WRITTEN BY ERIK VAN OS The shopping ILLUSTRATED BY NOËLLE SMIT cart I Wish We Had A Shark is a happy book full of dirty songs and naughty verses. A kid hides his mom’s key, so they have to stay longer at their grandparents WRITTEN BY BIBI DUMON TAK place. Mommy lost her lipstick and all of a sudden all the teddy bears are ILLUSTRATED BY NOËLLE SMIT heavily made up. A little turd is afraid of leaving the toilet. And goldfish and hamsters are boring, the kids prefer a shark as a pet. There is this one question that keeps bothering the smallest shopping cart With 26 rhymes, songs and verses to enjoy! in the super market. Where do the groceries once they leave the store? One night he decides to find out!

Pages: 64 Age: 4+ Pages: 32 Age: 4+ rights sold to Japan 10 PICTURE BOOKS BY YVONNE JAGTENBERG PICTURE BOOKS BY YVONNE JAGTENBERG 11

YVONNE JACHTENBERG (b 1967) has been illustrating since she graduated from art academy in Arnhem 15 years ago. During that time she worked for different Dutch and Balotje international publishers of children books. Currently Yvonne is working on “self-made” picture books. Yvonne was chosen to take part in the “Dutch Oranges”, “An Elephant Came We are so proud of Balotje. She is the shining star in her own price winning book series. By” and “Dutch Treats: Contemporary Illustration From the Netherlands,” an exhibition of 14 The whole series is made newly available with adorable new covers. Balotje is a tough children’s book Dutch illustrators around the world. The “Arno” and “Balotje’ titles have been little girl with a particular behaviour that attracts children from all over the world. She’s curious, straightforward and inventive. Never a dull moment with this Balotje! translated into over 9 different languages. She won several awards including the Charlotte

Köhler Stipendium. The series contains the following 10 titles: • Balotje and the bears • Balotje at ballet class • Balotje and grandmother’s bag • Balotje and the horse • Balotje and the baby • Balotje is jealous ‘The drawings • Balotje on holiday • Balotje at the zoo of Doggy are so • Balotje and the doctor • Balotje finds a friend playful that you capture him in your hart even before you have read one letter.’ – Dutch daily newspaper Trouw, Bas Maliepaard

The wonderful life of Doggy (the one and only) WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY YVONNE JAGTENBERG

The second book on the one and only Doggy contains several adventures of the famous and notorious Doggy. He is glad to meet loads of friends, sleeps wherever he wants to and eats what he fancies. He gets petted here and licked there. Doggy knows what a good life is; to be one with nature and be happy with yourself. The twenty stories are an ode to the four elements: water, earth, air and fire.

Pages: 72 Size: 19,5 x 25,2 cm Age: 4+ Pages: 32 Size: 21,5 x 28 cm Age: 3+ 12 PICTURE BOOKS BY HARMEN VAN STRAATEN PICTURE BOOKS BY HARMEN VAN STRAATEN 13

Elf brandweerolifanten Little snurken in hun ledikanten. Opeens klinkt er een hard geluid. Harmen van Straaten Trunk Late Het is de sirene die daar fluit. WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED Ze springen uit hun ledikant. BY HARMEN VAN STRAATEN ‘Brand,’ roepen ze, ‘brand!’ Snel glijden ze langs de paal. Little Trunk Late is a clumsy elephant who is Allemaal? always late. He desperately wants to be a fire- fighting elephant, but he is too late for every fire. In the end he becomes the hero of the story, by saving the barrack.

Harmen van Straaten is auteur van het The name of the elephant and the original title kinderboekenweekgeschenk 2013 of the book, Spuit Elf, has been chosed because of a literary and proverbial meaning of the word:

ISBN 978-90-8516-287-2 - ‘Spuit elf’ is a Dutch saying that means ‘squirt’: someone who is always late - ‘Spuit elf’ means Spuit 11: he lives together with 10 grown up elephants in the barrack.

Pages: 32 Age: 4+ Rights sold to China

The books WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED BY HARMEN VAN STRAATEN

Tim is a funny little boy. His most fascinating side is his After graduating from law limitless fantasy. Tim likes to tells stories and while he school, HARMEN VAN does that, he and his friends are making the trips he tells STRAATEN studied Film about. That’s how brilliant a story teller he is. Tim and his Animation at London’s Royal friends Pirate, Polar bear, Giraffe, Whale, © Harmen van Straaten College of Arts. To date, he The most special gift Cow and the penguins go anywhere they has illustrated a total of 250 like. books, including publications in WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED BY HARMEN VAN STRAATEN Belgium, the United Kingdom The stories are cheerful and mostly and Germany. Over the past Dany has everything he desires. But this time he wants a real written in rhyme. The books draw the few years, Harmen van Straaten special present. His parents are at a loss; when will Dany ever be attention they deserve because of the has focused on writing and satisfied?. And even more important: what will they have to buy for vivid colors, great shapes and when you illustrating his own books. him now? They ask the toystore for advice. The salesman has the start reading, the humor will capture Translations of his work have right present for Dany. you for sure. Children like to hear the been published in Germany, A picture book that makes you think. On how parents want to see stories over and over again. Belgium, Japan, Korea, France their children happy. On children that seem to know what they and Denmark. want, but do they?

Pages: 28 Age: 4+ Pages: 32 Age: 4+ 14 VAN GOGH GAUGAIN 15

TH Lima 1849–1855 Paul Gauguin spends the first seven years of his life in the home and family of his wealthy uncle, Don Pío, in Lima, Peru. He will

always remain homesick for Peru. The Vincent van Gogh 2018 autumn publication: of Date

Orléans Dimensions: 19,5 x 25 cm 25 x 19,5 Dimensions: 1855–1866

Hardcover He finds the return to France difficult. The weather is cold and at Number of pages: around 160 around pages: of Number

TH the boarding school in Orléans he doesn’t speak the language.

Retail price: € 19,95 € price: Retail The gauguin atlas He feels like an outsider. His main hobby: running away with a

Author: Nienke Denekamp Nienke Author: knapsack on his back. At the age of 17, he decides to go to sea. The Gauguin Atlas Gauguin The Paris Atlas 1866–1884 COPENHAGEN After five years of sailing, Gauguin starts work as a stockbroker in Paris. He marries a Danish woman, Mette Gad. He becomes LONDON acquainted with Impressionist painters and their work. He buys PARIS

their art and also starts painting. WRITTEN BYPont-Aven ENRICO PASSONI from Paris – not to mention the payment for his paintings. his for payment the mention to not – Paris from Pontoise 1879–1884

for the monthly mail boat to arrive with longed-for letters letters longed-for with arrive to boat mail monthly the for This is where the painter Pissarro, Gauguin’s teacher, lives. He

RENÉ VAN BLERK AND NIENKE DENEKAMP eternity an take to seemed it when and completed, been ILLUSTRATED BY invites the Sunday painter to come there to paint. Gauguin meets of two months, when the Eiffel Tower had only recently recently only had Tower Eiffel the when months, two of TOMASSO VIDUS ROSIN

other artists in Pontoise, including Cézanne, and spends entire

travelling by boat from Marseille to Tahiti was a journey journey a was Tahiti to Marseille from boat by travelling weekends there, which his wife, Mette, is none too happy about. accompany him to the era in which he lived. A time when when time A lived. he which in era the to him accompany

those places where he created his masterpieces, but also also but masterpieces, his created he where places those

, we not only follow Gauguin to all all to Gauguin follow only not we , Atlas Gauguin The

IN COOPERATION WITH THE VAN GOGH MUSEUM. In Rue Carcel, Paris 1880–1884

South Pacific. South At their house in Rue Carcel, Gauguin creates beautiful paintings

Tahiti and Hiva Oa, a French-Polynesian island in the the in island French-Polynesian a Oa, Hiva and Tahiti of Mette and the children. He spends more time at his easel than

France, Denmark, Panama, Martinique, New Zealand, Zealand, New Martinique, Panama, Denmark, France, at the stock exchange. After the stock market crash of 1882, he

for shorter and longer periods of time in various places in in places various in time of periods longer and shorter for resigns and chooses to focus on his art.

As an adult, he sailed all the world’s oceans and stayed stayed and oceans world’s the all sailed he adult, an As If anyoneMartinique was ever a citizen of the world, it was the artist Paul Gauguin of his life, he would always remain in search of paradise. paradise. of search in remain always would he life, his of Peru, where he spent his childhood in paradise. For the rest rest the For paradise. in childhood his spent he where Peru, Rouen

1884 emigrated – together with his parents – from France to to France from – parents his with together – emigrated Panama To save money, the Gauguins leave Paris and move to Rouen.

Paul Gauguin (1848–1903). At the tender age of one, he he one, of age tender the At (1848–1903). Gauguin Paul Finding herself now married to a not very successful artist,

Vincent van Gogh lived in an exciting era of history. So many artist the was it world, the of citizen a ever was anyone If (1848–1903). At the tender age of one, he emigrated – together with his Mette decides that she has had enough. She returns to her The Gauguin Atlas Gauguin The family in Denmark, taking the children with her. Papeete Copenhagen things were changing, with new inventions coming along all 1884–1885 parents – from France to Peru, where he spent his childhood in paradise. For Gauguin follows his family. In Copenhagen, he tries to make a LIMA living as a tarpaulin salesman. This does not work out. Much to the disdain of his in-laws, the family has to get by on the money Auckland Mette makes by giving occasional French lessons. ‘I hate the the time. Thanks to the railway network, with its rapid expansion Danes,’ writes Gauguin, ‘the climate and the people!’ He the rest of his life, he would always remain in search of paradise. As an adult, contemplates suicide and returns to Paris with his son Clovis. Dieppe 1885 across Europe, it was possible for the post to be delivered quickly. Leaving Clovis with his sister, Gauguin moves to the seaside townhe sailed all the world’s oceans and stayed for shorter and longer periods of Dieppe, where artists from Paris and London come together. He does not make a connection with the other artists. London In the year Vincent was born, you couldn’t even go on the train from 1885 of time in various places in France, Denmark, Panama, Martinique, New From Dieppe, Gauguin makes a trip to London, where he becomes acquainted with the Arts and Crafts movement. Back in Paris, he is bankrupt. Together with Clovis, he experiences a winter of bitter cold and poverty. Finally he succeeds in finding work as a the Netherlands to Brussels. But by the time he had grown up, it was billposter and earns some money at a ceramics studio. Zealand, Tahiti and Hiva Oa, a French-Polynesian island in the Sold to: Concarneau, Brittany Pont-Aven 1894 1886 EARLY In Concarneau, Gauguin becomes involved in a fight and breaks The Breton village of Pont-Aven is already well known as an Pont-Aven Meijer de Haan. Together they paint the bar room at their his leg. When he is accused of plagiarism in the press, he decides easy to travel all the way to the south of France. Vincent did quite artists’ community when Gauguin arrives there for the first timeSouth Pacific. that he has had enough. Gauguin leaves France for good. boarding house. Meanwhile Gauguin contemplates a life far in 1886. He stays at the Gloanec boarding house, which even he 1887–1888 away from western civilisation. China, Japan, can afford. He goes out sketching in the local area, but never Illness forces Gauguin to return to Paris, where he becomes Auckland, New Zealand journalism. With his critical articles, he soon becomes a wanders too far, so that he doesn’t have to miss any meals at acquainted with the Van Gogh brothers, Vincent and Theo, who 1895 serious nuisance on the island. are full of admiration for his work. During the, later summer regarded in Pont- as Papeete (Tahiti) the boarding house. 1891 During a stopover on his way to Tahiti, Gauguin visits the a lot of travelling, covering thousands of kilometres throughout four Aven, he paints The Vision after the Sermon Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands Auckland Institute and Museum, where he sees some Maori art. one of the most important works of Symbolism. In the summer of 1891, Gauguin arrives in Papeete, the capital of 1901–1903 Panama French Polynesia. He soon has enough of living among the French He plans to travel onwards from Tahiti to the more remote 1887 In 1901, Gauguin sells his house in Tahiti and travels to the colonials and moves to a village forty kilometres to the south. Marquesas Islands so that he can study other Polynesian art. Korea, UK/USA Once he is back in Paris, Gauguin soon wants to leave. He longs Arles Marquesas Islands. He goes ashore at Hiva Oa, where he 1888 for a simple life in the tropics, far from western civilisation and Mataiea (Tahiti) Punaauia, Tahiti builds his Maison du Jouir in the middle of the village of different countries. No matter where he was, he nearly always wrote to the relentless progress of the Industrial Revolution. In the spring In the autumn of 1888, he accepts Vincent van Gogh’s invitation to Atuona. He wonders if this is the paradise he has been In The Gauguin Atlas, we not only1895–1901 follow Gauguin to all those places where come and work with him at his artists’ colony in Arles, the Studio of 1891–1893 of 1887, he moves to Panama, where the French are digging the He gets stuck in Tahiti, where he has to be taken to hospital for searching for all his life. the South. This ends in disaster, with Van Gogh cutting off his ear In the forests around Mataiea, Gauguin is reborn as a ‘savage’ Panama Canal. As soon as he arrives in the huge western city of treatment for syphilis, leg injuries and fever. Standing at an easel Lima while chopping down a tree. He moves in with Tehamana, a 1849–1855 TH Colón, Gauguin realises Panama was not a good choice. and Gauguin catching the train to Paris without visiting the patient. Paul Gauguin spends the first seven years of his life in the home , which he writes after is not an option for him, so, like his father, Gauguin goes into and family of his wealthy uncle, Don Pío, in Lima, Peru. He will 13-year-old Tahitian girl. She also becomes his model and plays

Date of publication: autumn 2018 autumn publication: of Date always remain homesick for Peru. TH and Germany cm 25 x 19,5 Dimensions:

Orléans the leading role in the book Noa Noa

Number of pages: around 160 around pages: of Number 1855–1866 Le Pouldu, Brittany

his brother Theo. And Theo kept everything Vincent sent him: letters, TH

Retail price: € 19,95 € price: Retail Martinique He finds the return to France difficult. The weather is cold and at he created his masterpieces, but also accompany him to the era in which he

Author: Nienke Denekamp Nienke Author: the boarding school in Orléans he doesn’t speak the language. returning to Paris on family business. The Gauguin Atlas Gauguin The 1889 He feels like an outsider. His main hobby: running away with a 1887 knapsack on his back. At the age of 17, he decides to go to sea. Gauguin takes the boat back and goes ashore at the bay of Once again, Gauguin goes to Brittany, this time to the rugged

After five years of sailing, Gauguin starts work as a stockbroker in Paris. He marries a Danish woman, Mette Gad. He becomes village of Le Pouldu, where he meets the Dutch painter Isaac Saint-Pierre, the capital of the Caribbean island of Martinique. acquainted with Impressionist painters and their work. He buys

their art and also starts painting. He takes up residence in a straw hut on an old sugar plantation.

from Paris – not to mention the payment for his paintings. his for payment the mention to not – Paris from Pontoise

for the monthly mail boat to arrive with longed-for letters letters longed-for with arrive to boat mail monthly the for 1879–1884 drawings and paintings. So it’s thanks to Theo, the postal system and to eternity an take to seemed it when and completed, been This is where the painter Pissarro, Gauguin’s teacher, lives. He

The paintings he makes there reveal a big change in hislived. style. A time when travelling by boat from Marseille to Tahiti was a journey

of two months, when the Eiffel Tower had only recently recently only had Tower Eiffel the when months, two of invites the Sunday painter to come there to paint. Gauguin meets COPENHAGEN

travelling by boat from Marseille to Tahiti was a journey journey a was Tahiti to Marseille from boat by travelling other artists in Pontoise, including Cézanne, and spends entire LONDON accompany him to the era in which he lived. A time when when time A lived. he which in era the to him accompany weekends there, which his wife, Mette, is none too happy about.

PARIS those places where he created his masterpieces, but also also but masterpieces, his created he where places those Pont-Aven

, we not only follow Gauguin to all all to Gauguin follow only not we , Atlas Gauguin The

In In Rue Carcel, Paris

South Pacific. South 1880–1884

Tahiti and Hiva Oa, a French-Polynesian island in the the in island French-Polynesian a Oa, Hiva and Tahiti At their house in Rue Carcel, Gauguin creates beautiful paintings

France, Denmark, Panama, Martinique, New Zealand, Zealand, New Martinique, Panama, Denmark, France, of Mette and the children. He spends more time at his easel than

for shorter and longer periods of time in various places in in places various in time of periods longer and shorter for at the stock exchange. After the stock market crash of 1882, he

As an adult, he sailed all the world’s oceans and stayed stayed and oceans world’s the all sailed he adult, an As resigns and chooses to focus on his art.

of his life, he would always remain in search of paradise. paradise. of search in remain always would he life, his of

Peru, where he spent his childhood in paradise. For the rest rest the For paradise. in childhood his spent he where Peru, Rouen

emigrated – together with his parents – from France to to France from – parents his with together – emigrated 1884

Paul Gauguin (1848–1903). At the tender age of one, he he one, of age tender the At (1848–1903). Gauguin Paul To save money, the Gauguins leave Paris and move to Rouen. the railways that we now know so much about Vincent. With this book artist the was it world, the of citizen a ever was anyone If of two months, when the Eiffel Tower had only recently been completed, and Finding herself now married to a not very successful artist,

Mette decides that she has had enough. She returns to her The Gauguin Atlas Gauguin The Martinique family in Denmark, taking the children with her. Panama Copenhagen 1884–1885 Gauguin follows his family. In Copenhagen, he tries to make a living as a tarpaulin salesman. This does not work out. Much to the disdain of his in-laws, the family has to get by on the money Mette makes by giving occasional French lessons. ‘I hate the Danes,’ writes Gauguin, ‘the climate and the people!’ He LIMA contemplates suicide and returns to Paris with his son Clovis. Dieppe you can now follow Vincent van Gogh around Europe, to all the places 1885 when it seemed to take an eternity for the monthly mail boat to arrive with Leaving Clovis with his sister, Gauguin moves to the seaside town of Dieppe, where artists from Paris and London come together. He does not make a connection with the other artists. London 1885 From Dieppe, Gauguin makes a trip to London, where he becomes acquainted with the Arts and Crafts movement. Back in Paris, he is bankrupt. Together with Clovis, he experiences a winter of bitter cold and poverty. Finally he succeeds in finding work as a billposter and earns some money at a ceramics studio. Pont-Aven where he lived and worked! EARLY 1886 longed-for letters from Paris – not to mention the payment for his paintings. The Breton village of Pont-Aven is already well known as an artists’ community when Gauguin arrives there for the first time in 1886. He stays at the Gloanec boarding house, which even he can afford. He goes out sketching in the local area, but never wanders too far, so that he doesn’t have to miss any meals at the boarding house. Pont-Aven 1887–1888 Panama Illness forces Gauguin to return to Paris, where he becomes 1887 acquainted with the Van Gogh brothers, Vincent and Theo, who Meijer de Haan. Together they paint the bar room at their Once he is back in Paris, Gauguin soon wants to leave. He longs are full of admiration for his work. During the summer in Pont- boarding house. Meanwhile Gauguin contemplates a life far Concarneau, Brittany for a simple life in the tropics, far from western civilisation and Aven, he paints The Vision after the Sermon away from western civilisation. 1894 the relentless progress of the Industrial Revolution. In the spring one of the most important works of Symbolism., later regarded as TH In Concarneau, Gauguin becomes involved in a fight and breaks of 1887, he moves to Panama, where the French are digging the his leg. When he is accused of plagiarism in the press, he decides Panama Canal. As soon as he arrives in the huge western city of Arles Papeete (Tahiti) 1891 that he has had enough. Gauguin leaves France for good. Colón, Gauguin realises Panama was not a good choice. 1888 In the autumn of 1888, he accepts Vincent van Gogh’s invitation to In the summer of 1891, Gauguin arrives in Papeete, the capital of come and work with him at his artists’ colony in Arles, the Studio of French Polynesia. He soon has enough of living among the French Auckland, New Zealand Martinique 1895 1887 the South. This ends in disaster, with Van Gogh cutting off his ear colonials and moves to a village forty kilometres to the south. During a stopover on his way to Tahiti, Gauguin visits the Gauguin takes the boat back and goes ashore at the bay of and Gauguin catching the train to Paris without visiting the patient. Auckland Institute and Museum, where he sees some Maori art. Saint-Pierre, the capital of the Caribbean island of Martinique. Mataiea (Tahiti) 1891–1893 He plans to travel onwards from Tahiti to the more remote journalism. With his critical articles, he soon becomes a He takes up residence in a straw hut on an old sugar plantation. Le Pouldu, Brittany Marquesas Islands so that he can study other Polynesian art. serious nuisance on the island. The paintings he makes there reveal a big change in his style. 1889 In the forests around Mataiea, Gauguin is reborn as a ‘savage’ Once again, Gauguin goes to Brittany, this time to the rugged while chopping down a tree. He moves in with Tehamana, a 13-year-old Tahitian girl. She also becomes his model and plays Punaauia, Tahiti Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands village of Le Pouldu, where he meets the Dutch painter Isaac 1901–1903 the leading role in the book Noa Noa 1895–1901 returning to Paris on family business. , which he writes after He gets stuck in Tahiti, where he has to be taken to hospital for In 1901, Gauguin sells his house in Tahiti and travels to the treatment for syphilis, leg injuries and fever. Standing at an easel Marquesas Islands. He goes ashore at Hiva Oa, where he is not an option for him, so, like his father, Gauguin goes into builds his Maison du Jouir in the middle of the village of Atuona. He wonders if this is the paradise he has been searching for all his life.

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