Paul Gauguin’s art monster myth
Sue Prideaux’s biography of the unruly French painter shows his story was more complicated than that of colonial seducer.
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New Thinking.
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Sue Prideaux’s biography of the unruly French painter shows his story was more complicated than that of colonial seducer.
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