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Paul Gauguin

The Great Masters of Art series


  • Hirmer
  • by Isabell Cahn
In 1883 Gauguin abandons his prominent banking career and decides that »from now on I will pai nt every day«. The co - founder of Synthetism and trailblazer of Expressionism turns his back on the bourgeois world, leaves his wife and children, and, in 1891, sets out for the South Sea, financing his journey through the sale of thirty paintings. His thoughts on art, his existential worries, his discovery of color and his search for paradise come to life again in the excerpts from his letters and statements.

ISBN 9783777428543 | E | HB+
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Publisher Hirmer
ISBN 9783777428543
Author(s) Isabell Cahn
Publication date June 2017
Edition Hardback with dust jacket
Dimensions 205 x 140 mm
Illustrations 49 col.ill.
Pages 80
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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In 1883 Paul Gauguin abandons his prominent banking career and decides that »from now on I will pai nt every day«. The co - founder of Synthetism and trailblazer of Expressionism turns his back on the bourgeois world, leaves his wife and children, and, in 1891, sets out for the South Sea, financing his journey through the sale of thirty paintings. His thou ghts on art, his existential worries, his discovery of color and his search for paradise come to life again in the excerpts from his letters and statements compiled in this volume. Together with some forty color reproductions of his works, his biography, a nd a preface by an expert, the book introduces readers in a very special way to Gauguin’s universe.