Word: gauguin
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...always had a yearning to run away," confessed Painter Paul Gauguin in his Intimate Journals. "At Orleans, at the age of nine, I set out for the forest of Bondy-carrying a handkerchief filled with sand slung on the end of a stick over my shoulder. The picture of a traveler with bundle and staff . . . had always intrigued...
...Gauguin, then 46, ran away for the last time. His destination: Tahiti. Behind him he left a France indifferent to his revolutionary paintings with their red roads, violet fields and yellow trees. Abandoned, too, were his five children and the embittered wife who had never understood the creative fury driving her husband from his prosperous position as stockbroker and banker to poverty and restless wandering...
...South Seas, where he found several sloe-eyed mistresses, Gauguin was soon wracked by syphilis, recurrent attacks of influenza and an agonizingly persistent form of eczema. Sharp-tongued and truculent, he became embroiled in endless quarrels with his fellow Frenchmen, finally retired to an isolated island of the Marquesa group. There he hoped "that the completely savage atmosphere and solitude will, before I die, inspire me with a new fire of enthusiasm which will renew my imagination and put the finishing touch to my talent...
...circus subjects (The Blue Clown); after long illness; in White Plains, N. Y. A champion of modern art ("Good painters are never intellectuals; they're simply people with one-track minds"), Kuhn helped run the famed 1913 Armory Show, which introduced the U.S. to Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Matisse...
Sometimes, when entertaining at home with his art-collecting wife, Marie Whitney Harriman, ECA's European chief finds his guests distracted from weighty conversation. His salon is hung with a pink Renoir, a blue Picasso, a Van Gogh bowl of yellow tulips, and a Gauguin. Said one of his dinner guests, later: "God, how could I concentrate on what he was saying, with those around...