It’s hard to know what to make of Paul Gauguin. Postimpressionism is an umbrella term for European painters such as Gauguin who moved beyond the plein-air (“outdoor” ) breakthroughs of Degas, Renoir ...
For much of his life, Paul Gauguin railed against the deadening effects of bourgeois domesticity. But as Sue Prideaux writes in “Wild Thing,” her terrific new biography of the artist, for about a ...
The life of Paul Gauguin is the stuff of legend. Or several legends. There’s the Romantic visionary invoked by his friend August Strindberg—“a child taking his toys to pieces to make new ones, ...
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin. By Sue Prideaux. Faber; 416 pages; £30. To be published in America by W.W. Norton in May 2025; $39.99 FOR AN AMBITIOUS, clear-eyed biographer, Paul Gauguin is an ...
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