Calvary Cemetery (Atuona)
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Calvary Cemetery is the main cemetery in Atuona, Hiva ‘Oa, French Polynesia. It is located on a hillside on the eastern edge of town, overlooking the anchorage on Atuona Bay.
Tomb of Paul Gauguin
Tomb of Jacques Brel
Paul Gauguin
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Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements. He was also an
Calvary Cemetery (Atuona)
…on the eastern edge of town, overlooking the anchorage on Atuona Bay. The cemetery is the final resting place of French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, as well as of Belgian singer Jacques Brel. Marquesas Islands…
Aline Marie Chazal Tristán, (1825–1867) "The Artist's Mother", 1889, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Gauguin's maternal grandmother, Flora Tristan (1803–1844), in 1838
Gauguin with his wife Mette in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1885
Study of a Nude (Suzanne sewing), 1880, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek