Dimensions
250 x 320 x 40mm
'Gaugin by Himself' is unique in its approach, giving equal weight to Gauguin's activities both as an artist and as a writer. It provides a rare insight into his intractable character and uncompromising ideas as well as charting the extraordinary and complex development of his art from hesitant impressionism, through the experimental synthesis of his Breton paintings to the striking colour and powerful forms of his Tahitian work. His letters to his wife and friends, including many to fellow painters, comment freely on contemporaries such as Cezanne.
Illustrated with over 230 of his most powerful and decorative works of art, 'Gauguin by Himself' offers a fresh look at the diverse faces and talents of a man who chose to live outside the bounds of bourgeois marriage, family and society, and eventually many miles from his native homeland, in order to fulfil his vocation as a "great artist".
