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1886
 
   
Dutch painter Vincent Willem van Gogh moves from Antwerp to Paris      
1888
 
    
Vincent van Gogh invites Paul Gauguin to come and paint with him at Arles, in the south of France       
Van Gogh Van Gogh's Chair (detail) 1888
National Gallery, London

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1889
 
    
Vincent van Gogh enters a psychiatric asylum in St Rémy as a voluntary patient       
Van Gogh A Wheatfield, with Cypresses (detail) 1889
National Gallery, London

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1891
 
   
French artist Paul Gauguin travels to Tahiti and stays in the Pacific islands for most of the rest of his life      
1895
 
    
Gwen John persuades a reluctant father to allow her to follow her younger brother to the Slade School of Art in London       
c. 1900
 
   
The Welsh painter Augustus John becomes Britain's most famous bohemian      
Augustus John, by William Orpen, c.1900
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1901
 
    
A change of palette by Pablo Picasso takes him into what becomes known as his Blue Period       
1902
 
    
Augustus John meets his favourite subject Dorothy McNeill, to whom he gives the Gypsy name Dorelia       
1905
 
    
Henri Matisse completes his painting Luxe, Calme et Volupté       
1905
 
    
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and other Dresden students form the Expressionist group Die Brücke