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Gauguin. « Ce malgré moi de sauvage » - Découvertes Gallimard (n° 49)
GK196439
FRENCH LANGUAGE
"My grandmother was a funny woman. Her name was Flora Tristan..." So much for the maternal ancestry. Clovis Gauguin, the father, was a journalist. He died on his way to Peru in 1849. Paul is one year old. All his adolescence, he will keep the nostalgia of the tropics.
What followed was a life of constant departures: Copenhagen, Pont-Aven, Martinique, Arles and, in 1891, the great departure for Tahiti. "I leave to be quiet, to be free of the influence of civilization. I only want to make simple art, very simple. This "savage in spite of himself" died in the Marquesas Islands on May 8, 1903.
French language
196 pages
Gallimard / Rmn-Grand Palais
Découvertes Gallimard (n° 49)
