Gauguin

1988 · réf. 572BB — 1988. Second Edition. New York Little Brown and Company 1988. 24cm x 32 cm. XXVI 519 pages with numerous illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Some staining to the endpaper and halftitle this is the only fault. Otherwise in excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Stunning publication. Includes for Example: Gauguin portrayed by Himself and by others. Chronology: June 1848 - June 1886 / The Impressionist Years / Brittany: The Ceramics Martinique / The First Tahitian Years / Return to France / The Final Years: Tahiti and Hivaoa. Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin French: 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903 was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death. Gauguin was later recognized for his experimental use of colors and synthetist style that were distinguishably different from Impressionism. His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Gauguin’s art became popular after his death and many of his paintings were in the possession of Russian collector Sergei Shchukin. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter sculptor print-maker ceramist and writer. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings under the influence of the cloisonnist style paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential proponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. Wikipedia hardcover