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...FATHER PAUL GAUGUIN-Pola Gauguin-Knopf ($3-75) When Paul Gauguin died of syphilis in 1903, few were really sorry. He had always been a lone wolf: as stockbroker, family man, runaway painter he had always pursued his own proud, peculiar way, and his enemies were thicker than his friends. When he died alone in his hut in the Marquesas Islands, his wife and their five children, long strangers to him, were half the world away in Denmark. Since 1903 many a critic has climbed over the fence and given Gauguin's painting nearly as high marks...
Last week Gauguin's youngest son Pola gave a more authoritative and respectable version of his lone-wolf father's career. His narrative lacked Maugham's melodrama, also its moonshine, showed his absentee father as partly heroic, partly lupine, wholly credible. Born in Paris in the stormy year 1848, Paul Gauguin had a stormy mixture in his veins. His father W'as a French radical, his mother half-Peruvian. After Louis Napoleon's coiup d'état in 1851, the Gauguins had to flee the country. On the long voyage to Peru, Father Gauguin...
...Gauguin did not suddenly abandon his family and go off to seek his painting fortune. But his art became more & more demanding of his time and interest, until one day, when he was 33, he informed Mette he had left the bank for good. She was thunderstruck. They had to move out of Paris to save money. After eight restless months in Rouen, Mette suggested they go to Denmark while they still had enough for the trip. Gauguin agreed. In Denmark his in-laws received him coldly, looked down on him still further when Mette had to start giving French...
...Gauguin went back to France, painted like a madman, had a bad time. At one point he took a job as a billposter. He made a first trip to the tropics, to Martinique, but it was a disappointment. Then Vincent van Gogh, a lone wolf like himself, invited him to come and work with him at Aries. Their queer partnership broke up when van Gogh went crazy and cut off his ear with a razor. Meanwhile Gauguin and Mette wrote to each other, in a fairly friendly fashion. He tried to explain to her why he was acting...
...Problems, from paintings, drawings, mosaics, and other material, it made an impressive demonstration of its theme as applied to western European painting. But the most notable exhibition in initiative, size and public interest--in fact the popular event of the last three years--was the Work of Paul Gauguin, including both paintings and prints. It was arranged by the newly formed Boston Chapter of the Museum of Modern Art, under the auspices of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Germanic Museum, and the Fogg Museum...