wealthy, liberal family; grandmother was the famous French socialist writer Flora Tristan
self-taught; with Camille Pissarro at Académie Colarossi (Paris)
1871 – begins working as stockbroker
1874 – meets Camille Pissarro
1876 – exhibits at Paris Salon
1880 – exhibits at Fifth Impressionist exhibition (also Sixth 1881; Seventh 1882; and Eighth, 1886)
1882 – loses job as a stockbroker
1886 – begins working in ceramics; moves to Pont-Aven, Brittany
1888 – returns to Pont-Aven with Emile Bernard; Paul Sérusier visits; joins Vincent van Gogh in Arles October-December of 1888; returns to Paris in December
1889 – exhibits with Les XX (Brussels); submissions rejected by the Exposition universelle (Paris); joins alternative exhibition at Café Volpini; returns to Brittany with Sérusier
1891 – leaves for Tahiti following successful fundraising sale of his work in Paris
1893 – returns to Paris; exhibits at Galerie Durand-Ruel
1895 – returns to Papeete, Tahiti
Blue Tree Trunks, 1888 (Ordrupgaard Collection, Denmark)
Still Life with Three Puppies, 1888 (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Christ in the Garden of Olives, 1889 (Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach)
Playing in the Waves, 1889 (Cleveland Museum of Art)
The Yellow Christ, 1889 (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo)
Self-Portrait with the Yellow Christ, 1889 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
Poèmes Barbares, 1896 (Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University)
The Spirit of the Dead Watching, 1892 (Albright-Knox Art Gallery)
Nevermore, 1897 (Courtauld Institute Gallery, London)
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