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Art Masters: Gauguin: The Other World
- SelfMadeHero
- by Fabrizio Dori
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Publisher | SelfMadeHero |
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ISBN | 9781910593271 |
Author(s) | Fabrizio Dori |
Publication date | March 2017 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 240 x 170 mm |
Pages | 144 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Description
In 1891, Paul Gauguin arrives on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. In this lush paradise, he is liberated from the concerns of the city-dwelling European. He is free: to love, to sing, and to create. In Copenhagen, Gauguin's wife enjoys no such freedom. She would rather forget her odious husband and his degenerate artwork. Instead, in a city resistant to the avant-garde, she is tasked with selling a collection of his extravagantly priced Tahitian paintings. When they finally go on sale - in Paris, shortly after Gauguin's return - sales are catastrophic. For Monet, Renoir and others, nothing points to the significance of these bizarre, visionary works. Gauguin: The Other World is a revelatory biography of an artist whose qualities as a man won him few admirers in his own lifetime, but whose talents as a painter would have an enormous influence on the art of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and many more.