Sue Prideaux: Wild Thing

Name: Sue Prideaux: Wild Thing
Author: Prideaux, Sue
ISBN: 9780571365937

by Prideaux, Sue

ISBN: 9780571365937

Published: 2024

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A TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 A vital re-examination of the trailblazing and controversial artist Paul Gauguin - and the first full biography in over thirty years - written by the award-winning author of I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche. *Gorgeously illustrated with 70 full-colour images* 'Scintillating.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Immaculate.' NEW STATESMAN 'Phenomenal.' PROSPECT 'A heroic rehabilitation.' THE TIMES Paul Gauguin is chiefly known as the giant of post-Impressionist painting whose bold colours and compositions rocked the Western art world. It is less well known that he was a stockbroker in Paris and that after the 1882 financial crash he struggled to sustain his artistry, and worked as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen, a canal digger in Panama City, and a journalist exposing the injustices of French colonial rule in Tahiti. In Wild Thing, the award-winning biographer...

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