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Jean-Luc Coatalem In Search of Gauguin
Orion Publishing 2004 0297829688 / 9780297829683 Hardcover New
"Brand New Book, Hardcover, clean, tight, unmarked, 6 1/2' x 9 1/2', Brown covers with gold gilt titles on spine, no cover wear, new DJ is not price clipped, 12 colour illustrations, 1 b&w photo, 280 pages, A journey in search of Paul Gauguin and the landscapes through which he passed. A sepia picture of an Anglo-Polynesian woman bought at auction by the author leads him to set off following the traces left by Gauguin of his travels round the globe. Who was the woman in the painting and why did Gauguin paint the face of her son, Atiti, on the day of his death at Papeete? He decides to go to the South Seas in search of the woman and her story. And so starts the author's reconstruction of Gauguin's life, an artist who thought he could find himself by escaping from reality, a man who reinvented exoticism, and finally lost his mind. Accessible and compelling, IN SEARCH OF GAUGUIN is a spiritual, human and geographical quest which takes in Holland, Brittany, Provence, Denmark, Panama, Mar... ID: mon0000000439"
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9.80 USD
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