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=== First paintings === [[File:Paul Gauguin 001.jpg|thumb|upright|''[[Study of a Nude|Study of a Nude (Suzanne sewing)]]'', 1880, [[Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek]]]] In 1873, around the time he became a stockbroker, Gauguin began painting in his free time. His Parisian life centered on the [[9th arrondissement of Paris]]. Gauguin lived at 15, rue la Bruyère.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bain-Smith |first1=Priscilla |title=Gauguin: Where he lived and loved |url=http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/gauguin-where-he-lived-and-loved/ |website=bonjourparis.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402115057/http://www.bonjourparis.com/story/gauguin-where-he-lived-and-loved/ |archive-date=2 April 2015 |url-status=dead |access-date=20 March 2015}}</ref><ref name="Paris locations">Jean-François Staszak {{Google books|id_AUj-DycAC|Géographies de Gauguin|page=32|plainurl=}}</ref> Nearby were the cafés frequented by the Impressionists. Gauguin also visited galleries frequently and purchased work by emerging artists. He formed a friendship with [[Camille Pissarro]]<ref name="met" /> and visited him on Sundays to paint in his garden. Pissarro introduced him to various other artists. In 1877 Gauguin "moved downmarket and across the river to the poorer, newer, urban sprawls" of {{ill|Vaugirard (Seine)|lt=Vaugirard|fr|Vaugirard (Seine)}}. Here, on the third floor at 8 rue Carcel, he had his first home with a [[studio]].<ref name="Paris locations" /> His close friend [[Émile Schuffenecker]], a former stockbroker who also aspired to become an artist, lived close by. Gauguin showed paintings in [[Impressionist]] exhibitions held in 1881 and 1882 (earlier, a sculpture of his son Émile had been the only sculpture in the 4th Impressionist Exhibition of 1879). His paintings received dismissive reviews, although several of them, such as ''The Market Gardens of Vaugirard'', are now highly regarded.{{sfn|Thomson|1987|p=22}}{{sfn|Mathews|2001|pp=38–40}} In 1882, the [[stock market]] crashed and the art market contracted. [[Paul Durand-Ruel]], the Impressionists' primary art dealer, was especially affected by the crash, and for a period of time stopped buying pictures from painters such as Gauguin. Gauguin's earnings contracted sharply, and over the next two years he slowly formulated his plans to become a full-time artist.<ref name="met">Cindy Kang, [http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gaug/hd_gaug.htm Gauguin Biography], ''Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History'', New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000.</ref> The following two summers, he painted with Pissarro and occasionally [[Paul Cézanne]]. In October 1883, he wrote to Pissarro saying that he had decided to make his living from painting at all costs and asked for his help, which Pissarro at first readily provided. The following January, Gauguin moved with his family to [[Rouen]], where they could live more cheaply and where he thought he had discerned opportunities when visiting Pissarro there the previous summer. However, the venture proved unsuccessful, and by the end of the year Mette and the children moved to [[Copenhagen]], Gauguin following shortly after in November 1884, bringing with him his art collection, which subsequently remained in Copenhagen.{{sfn|Thomson|1987|pp=27–29}}{{sfn|Mathews|2001|pp=52–56}} Life in Copenhagen proved equally difficult, and their marriage grew strained. At Mette's urging, supported by her family, Gauguin returned to Paris the following year.{{sfn|Mathews|2001|p=56}}{{sfn|Mathews|2001|pp=57–62}} <gallery widths="200px" heights="200px" class="center"> File:Paul Gauguin 064.jpg|''The Market Gardens of Vaugirard'', 1879, [[Smith College Museum of Art]] File:Paul Gauguin 059.jpg|''Winter Landscape'', 1879, [[Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest)|Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest]] File:Paul Gauguin, 1880, The Embroiderer (La Brodeuse), oil on canvas, 116 x 81 cm, Foundation E.G. Bührle.jpg|''Portrait of Madame Gauguin,'' c. 1880–81, [[Foundation E.G. Bührle]], Zürich File:Paul Gauguin 060.jpg|''Garden in Vaugirard'' (Painter's Family in the Garden in Rue Carcel), 1881, [[Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek]], Copenhagen </gallery>
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