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In June, 1891, Paul Gauguin arrived in Tahiti. He was forty-three. With him—according to Sue Prideaux, whose new biography of Gauguin, “Wild Thing,” is the first to appear in English in thirty ...

For much of his life, Paul Gauguin railed against the deadening effects of bourgeois domesticity. But as Sue Prideaux writes in “Wild Thing,” her terrific new biography of the artist, for about a ...

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Gauguin (1848-1903) was also self-taught in music and played several instruments, but he was mostly in painting. Prideaux suggests that Gauguin had synesthesia, a crossed-wires neurological condition ...

The life of Paul Gauguin is the stuff of legend. Or several legends. There’s the Romantic visionary invoked by his friend August Strindberg—“a child taking his toys to pieces to make new ones, ...

In “Wild Thing,” Sue Prideaux draws on recently discovered source material, delivering an enthralling account of an artist whose life was as inventive as his art. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase ...

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Sue Prideaux’s gruesomely fascinating “Wild Thing” begins with four teeth in a well. Local inhabitants of Hiva Oa, in French Polynesia, found them in 2000 while restoring the nearby hut in which Paul ...

A new biography of the French painter brims with reputation-redeeming surprises about the much-maligned rascal of the South Seas. The first time Paul Gauguin was canceled, his last breath had scarcely ...

This year brings with it many exciting big-ticket book releases, ranging from the discovered diaries of a literary titan to the hotly awaited memoir of a major star. We’ve surveyed the publishing ...

Through half a century Paul Gauguin has become increasingly famous as a painter of genius who invented a unique style. In that same period Emile Bernard has languished in the shadow as a second-rate ...