Paul Gauguin - Isabell Cahn

In 1883 Paul Gauguin abandons his prominent
banking career and decides that (S1(Bfrom now on
I will pai nt every day(S0(B. The co - founder of
Synthetism and trailblazer of Expressionism
turns his back on the bourgeois world, leaves
his wife and children, and, in 1891, sets out for
the South Sea, financing his journey through
the sale of thirty paintings. His thou ghts on art,
his existential worries, his discovery of color
and his search for paradise come to life again
in the excerpts from his letters and statements
compiled in this volume. Together with some
forty color reproductions of his works, his
biography, a nd a preface by an expert, the
book introduces readers in a very special way
to Gauguin's universe.