Paul Gauguin - 1848-1903 The Primitive Sophisticate
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9783822801147 (3822801143)
Publish date: January 1st 1988
Publisher: Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
Edition language: Deutsch
Series: TASCHEN's Basic Art Series 8 (#26)
This is, as I've implied, a very neurotic book -- but by the end, the author (for all his idiosyncrasies) won me over. It is the late Gauguin that accomplished this.Gauguin first trip to Tahiti (the source of his most famous pictures) was in 1891-1893. He returned to Tahiti in 1895 after a disastr...