Paul Gauguin: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?

ISBN-13: 9780878467938 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 56 str.

Paul Gauguin

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The life of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) is one of the richest and most mythic in the history of Western art. Abandoning a career in banking, a family and his homeland, in the last decade of the nineteenth century he sailed from France to the South Seas to seek a life -in ecstasy, in peace and for art.- During his years in Tahiti, Gauguin brought forth a wealth of astonishing paintings, culminating in this monumental meditation on what he called the -ever-present riddle- of human existence posed in the work's title. This compact introduction to Gauguin's masterpiece explores its relation to European models as well as to the artist's own companion pieces.