Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin is chiefly known as the giant of post-Impressionst painting whose bold colours and compositions rocked the Western art world. It is less well known that he began as a stockbroker in Paris, and that after the 1882 financial crash he worked as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen, a canal diger in Panama City, and eventually as a journalist exposing the injustices of French colonial rule in Tahiti.

In Wild Thing, award-winning biographer Sue Prideaux re-examines the adventurous and complicated life of the artist and illuminates the people, places and ideas that shaped his vision. Drawing from a wealth of new material and access to the artist's family, this myth-busting work invites us to see Gauguin anew.

Forfatter: Sue Prideaux
Mål: H: 19,8 cm. x B: 12,9 cm.
Side antal: 410
Forlag: Faber & Faber 
Udgivet: 2025