Finished 20th September 2016

1000 Pieces

Women of Tahiti on the beach

Paul Gauguin, 1891

On display at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris

A Trefl Art Puzzle with a unique texture on the surface which resembles brush strokes. In fact I can see some different shimmering textures, but no brush strokes. 

Anyway: it is a wonderful piece of art!

Finished 27th November 2015 - excellent finger exercises

"Cranes on a background of Mount Fuji"

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"Village Sekiya by the river Sumida" 

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Under the wave off Kanagawa (detail with 50% of mount Fuji), 1831

Three paintings taken from the series "36 views of mount Fuji" by Katsushika Hokusai, Japan

another two jigsaw puzzles, colourful and with a statement:

and finally: Gauguin

"Arearea" (1892)

Six wonderful Michèle Wilson handcut wooden jigsaw puzzles

each 30 pieces

Finished 14th september 2009

204 Pieces Micropuzzle
Gelini "Romantic evening"
15x10cm


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1000 Pieces
Disneys Art Gallery

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1000 Pieces
Miracolous Spring (Nave, Nave Moe)
Paul Gauguin

The worldfamous post-impressionist artist was born in Paris 1848 and died 1903 on the island Hiva Oa, Marquesas (Polynesia). 1891-1893 he lived in Tahiti. He had so many dreams about this paradise but the very day he arrived, he had to deal with reality: colonialism and christianism had their influence on people, culture and society. His paintings are documents.

After his return to France he had to deal with some bad things and so he decided to travel back to Tahiti just one year later. Due to severe financal problems and a bad health his situation became more worse. 1897 he tried to commit suicide with arsene but failed.

Finally in 1900 he had luck: a galerist in Paris offered him a kind of small salary and for the first time in his life Paul Gauguin was able to life from his art.