Wildeman: Het leven van Paul Gauguin
Sue Prideaux
De Arbeiderspers, 2025
€39,95
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) is best known as the painter whose bold colours and compositions turned the Western art world upside down. It is less well known that he toiled as a stockbroker in Paris, a canal digger in Panama City and a critical journalist in Tahiti. Sue Prideaux delves into the artist’s adventurous and complicated life. She sheds light on the people, places and ideas that shaped his vision: his upbringing in Peru and rebellious youth in France; the energy of the Parisian art scene; his encounters with his wife Mette, with Vincent van Gogh and August Strindberg; and the exotic and erotic appeal of French Polynesia. Sue Prideaux was able to draw on a wealth of new material for this book, partly thanks to contact with Gauguin’s family. She unravels the myth and reality of a painter whose work and life have been the subject of constant debate in recent years. IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 9789029544009
