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This biography of the French artist describes his travels, lifestyle, love affairs, and the battle with syphilis that eventually took his life. "Everyone knows something about Paul Gauguin, but what do they really know? To many he is still the purveyor of the most seductive dream in Western art: the French stockbroker who abandoned his stultifyingly bourgeois family and career, traveling to the ends of the earth in search of a tropical Eden that...

"The legendary, pioneering French artist who famously left his family and a career in finance to paint and live like a native in the South Seas, Paul Gauguin in fact began sailing to far-off lands during childhood. As a boy he lived for a time with relatives in Peru, and in his teens, in the merchant marine and the military, he visited South America, India, the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, and the North Sea. He believed firmly in his difference,...

Paul Gauguin painted Arearea or Joyousness during his first stay in Tahiti. The painting currently resides in the Musee d' Orsay. Learn about Gauguin's life, inspirations, and influences.

1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores Paul Gauguin's "Sweet Dreams," completed in 1894 and housed in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

From October to December 1888, Paul Gauguin shared a home in Arles with Vincent van Gogh. This was, without doubt, the most celebrated cohabitation in art history: never, before or since have two such towering artistic talents been penned up in so small a space. They were the Odd Couple of art history. Predictably, the results were explosive. The dénouement of their life together has entered into folklore. Two months after Gauguin arrived in Arles,...

"Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be told, for instance, that Peter Paul Rubens' great painting Drunken Silenus is an allegory about anal rape. Or that Courbet's famous hunting pictures are psychodramas about "castration...