Lovers of Paul Gauguin’s art love visiting Copenhagen, which is ironic because he lived for barely a year in the city before heading back to France. Gauguin returned once to visit his Danish wife, before he went to Polynesia to make paintings the like of which the world had never seen. To be fair to Copenhagen, selling tarpaulins in the busy port city was never likely to inspire that creative spirit. Gauguin fell into the job after a stock market crash destroyed his career as a stockbroker in Paris. When he moved to Copenhagen in 1884, Gauguin was starting to take his painting seriously, but with no takers for his colourful canvasses, he sold muted, grey work. Most of Gauguin’s work from that early period remained in Denmark and can be seen at the superb museum and art gallery in the centre of the city, the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. The Glyptotek has a strong collection of Impressionists including Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Cézanne and Jacques-Louis David. The presentation of Gau...
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