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Paul Gauguin spent his early childhood in Peru
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AI-generated reconstruction of a mother and young boy in a Lima courtyard, 1850s; not a verified portrait of Gauguin or his family.
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Paul Gauguin spent part of his early childhood in Lima, Peru. His family moved there from France in 1851 and returned to France in 1855. So it is more precise to say he spent several formative childhood years in Peru, not his entire childhood there.


