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Died. Emile Gauguin, 81, retired construction engineer, elder son of Painter Paul Gauguin and Mette Gad, the Danish wife whom Gauguin deserted to follow a painting career; of bronchial pneumonia; in Englewood. Fla. Although he owned only one of his father's works, a pencil sketch of his mother, Emile Gauguin staunchly defended his father's reputation, in 1941 threatened to sue United Artists if they used any Gauguin art in the movie version of Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence, claiming that it would identify the disreputable hero with his father (see BOOKS...
NOBLE SAVAGE: THE LIFE OF PAUL GAUGUIN (299 pp.)-Lawrence & Elisabeth Hanson-Random House...
...symbolist who worshiped at the literary and artistic shrines of Mallarmé and Gauguin, Vuillard brought impressionism into the parlor. Like Manet, Monet and Degas, he covered his canvases with veils of light and shadow. But Vuillard's subjects were domestic-his mother, his friends and the quiet, bourgeois, wallpapered rooms in which they lived. To those everyday themes, he brought the quiet joy of small mysteries...
...Back Room. The revival was due to an enterprising New Zealander named Rex de C. Nan Kivell, who runs the Redfern Gallery. In 1938 he had come across a Dumont landscape in the back room of a Paris gallery. It suggested both the influence of Gauguin and a comparable talent. After the war, Nan Kivell set out to find more of Dumont's work; he roamed all over France, picking up paintings from private collections and the homes of Dumont's friends. In ten years, he succeeded in getting together 54 Dumonts for the current show...
...Though there is evidence that some artistic talent was passed on to the children and grandchildren of Gauguin and his Danish wife Mette: son Jean René, 72, is a noted Copenhagen sculptor, and son Pola, 70, an ex-painter, is now an art critic in Oslo. Among the grandchildren: a promising painter and a maker of woodcuts...