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Gauguin Tahiti
Paul Gauguin, Claire FrEches-Thory
MFA Publications
MFA Publications
The life of Paul Gauguin is one of the richest and most mythic in the history of Western art. A banker and "Sunday painter," he left behind family and homeland and sailed to the South Seas, seeking a life "in ecstasy, in peace, and for art." Gauguin...
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The Yellow House: Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin Side by Side
Susan Goldman Rubin
Harry N. Abrams
Harry N. Abrams
Discover how artists work and share ideas Living alone in the south of France, Vincent van Gogh missed the company of other painters. Hoping to attract artists to Arles, where he was staying, van Gogh invited Paul Gauguin to come live with him in...
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Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin
Chronicle Books
Chronicle Books
In 1894, Paul Gauguin left what he considered to be a culturally bereft Europe to live an unfettered life in a tropical paradise Tahiti. It was there that he produced some of his most beautiful and best-known paintings, as well as another...
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The Writings Of A Savage
Paul Gauguin
Da Capo Press
Da Capo Press
The life of Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), who abandoned his wife, five children, and a successful career as a stockbroker to paint in poverty in exotic Tahiti, is one of the legendary tales of the art world. Today he is recognized as a highly...
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Paul Gauguin: Letters to His Wife and Friends
Paul Gauguin
MFA Publications
MFA Publications
"May the day come--and perhaps soon--when I can flee to the woods on a South Sea island and live there in ecstasy, in peace and for art," Gauguin wrote to his wife, Mette, in 1890. As both art history and enduring legend have shown, Gauguin's life...
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Gauguin's Intimate Journals
Paul Gauguin
Dover Publications
Dover Publications
Revealing documents, reprinted from rare, limited edition, throw much light on the painter's inner life, his tumultuous relationship with van Gogh, evaluations of Degas, Monet, and other artists; hatred of hypocrisy and sham, life in the Marquesas...
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