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A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin and the first full biography in over thirty years written by the award-winning author of I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche.

*Gorgeously illustrated with 70 full-colour images*

''Thoughtful and knowledgeable, witty and bold . . . A scintillating account of a richly complicated life.'' LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT

Paul Gauguin is chiefly known as the giant of post-Impressionist painting whose bold colours and compositions rocked the Western art world. It is less well known that he was a stockbroker in Paris and that after the 1882 financial crash he struggled to sustain his artistry, and worked as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen, a canal digger in Panama City, and a journalist exposing the injustices of French colonial rule in Tahiti.

In Wild Thing, the award-winning biographer Sue Prideaux re-examines the adventurous and complicated life of the artist

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A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin and the first full biography in over thirty years... Read more

    Publisher: Faber & Faber
    Publication Date: 9/12/2024
    ISBN13: 9780571365937, 978-0571365937
    ISBN10: 0571365930

    Non Fiction , Art & Photography

    Description

    A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin and the first full biography in over thirty years written by the award-winning author of I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche.

    *Gorgeously illustrated with 70 full-colour images*

    ''Thoughtful and knowledgeable, witty and bold . . . A scintillating account of a richly complicated life.'' LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT

    Paul Gauguin is chiefly known as the giant of post-Impressionist painting whose bold colours and compositions rocked the Western art world. It is less well known that he was a stockbroker in Paris and that after the 1882 financial crash he struggled to sustain his artistry, and worked as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen, a canal digger in Panama City, and a journalist exposing the injustices of French colonial rule in Tahiti.

    In Wild Thing, the award-winning biographer Sue Prideaux re-examines the adventurous and complicated life of the artist

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