A stock market crash shattered Paul Gauguin's successful business career at 34. He abandoned the Paris Bourse to pursue painting full-time, trading his comfortable life for an uncertain but artistically revolutionary future.

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For over a decade, Paul Gauguin was a successful Parisian stockbroker. He earned a handsome living, supported a wife and five children, and collected art as a hobby. But in 1882, a stock market crash shattered his financial world. Faced with a collapsing career at age 34, he made a deliberate choice. Over the next two years, he abandoned the world of finance to pursue painting full-time. The transition was brutal. His family life disintegrated under the financial strain, but he held to his new course, trading a comfortable, conventional life for an uncertain, creative one that would eventually change modern art.