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...LIFE OF PAUL GAUGUIN-Robert Burnett-Oxford University Press ($3.50). Run-of-the-mine biography of the irrational businessman-turned-painter whose life W. Somerset Maugham acidly fictionized in The Moon and Sixpence. First full-length biography in English but Pola Gauguin's version (My Father, Paul Gauguin; TIME, Feb. 8) was less detailed, more convincing...
...Daytona Beach branch of the National League of American Penwomen. At the end of the book are appended, without any explanation, 98 pictures, starting with prehistoric rock carvings, showing 29 Logan prizewinners plus other canvases of mediocre representational cast, plus still more by Cezanne, Seurat, van Gogh, Gauguin, Salvador Dali...
...Gauguin scraped together enough money to take him to Tahiti. Before he left he wrote a loving letter to Mette, said they would be married again when he came back. His Parisian mistress, who was about to have a baby, was sorry to see him go. In Tahiti Gauguin found himself. He lived like a native, worked like a man whose days were numbered. In a letter to Mette he said: "You are right; I am an artist. There is nothing stupid about you I am a great artist and I know it." He returned to France after two years...
...French critics still fought shy of him. His exhibition was a financial failure. In a brawl with some sailors his leg was badly broken. His Javanese mistress decamped with his money. In towering disgust Gauguin auctioned off his pictures, went back to the South Seas for good & all. Night before he left he spent with a casual prostitute. Her good-by present was the syphilis that killed him. By now even Tahiti disgusted him-the corrupted natives, the venal officials, the whites who stood him drinks to laugh at his diatribes. He left Tahiti for the Marquesas. Though his disease...
...Author's real name is Paul; he was named for his late great father, but his mother always called him by the Danish diminutive. Half-Danish, half-French with a dash of Peruvian, Pola Gauguin was born in Paris, brought up in Copenhagen, lives now in Oslo, Norway. An architect, art critic, painter in his own right, 54-year-old Pola Gauguin has five canvases in the National Gallery at Oslo, but has never attempted to set either the Seine or the South Seas on fire...