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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      
1901
 
    
A change of palette by Pablo Picasso takes him into what becomes known as his Blue Period       
1905
 
    
Henri Matisse completes his painting Luxe, Calme et Volupté       
1905
 
    
Pablo Picasso's palette becomes warmer as Blue evolves into Rose       
1905
 
     
Henri Matisse, in the south of France, paints The Open Window, Collioure, the first of his many works on this theme        
1905
 
     
Matisse, Derain and others, exhibiting in Paris their shockingly colourful new works, are dubbed fauves ("wild beasts") by a critic        
1906
 
     
Pablo Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein prefigures cubism in its mask-like treatment of her face        
1906
 
   
A large retrospective exhibition in Paris gives Paul Gauguin a growing posthumous reputation