Paul Gauguin was a French post-impressionist painter born in Paris in 1848 and died in 1903 in French Polynesia at age 54. Some of his most famous paintings include Tahitian Women on the Beach, Landscape Tahitian, The Swineherd of Brittany, and Ea Haere Ai Oe, capturing scenes from his travels to South America, Denmark, and French Polynesia where he spent his later years.