Letters to his wife and friends
By: Paul Gauguin ; edited and with a preface by Maurice Malingue ; translated by Henry J. Stenning
Contributors: Malingue, Maurice
Edition: 1st ArtWorks ed.
Series: ArtWorks
Publisher: MFA Publications
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780878466658
Subjects: Correspondence; Painters
Work titles: Lettres à sa femme et à ses amis
Description: "As both art and history and enduring legend have shown, Gauguin's life in the South Seas was anything but ecstatic or peaceful, even as he created some of the most revolutionary and iconic objects of his time. This book, to date the most comprehensive volume of the painter's letters to be published in English, offers an uncensored glimpse into Gauguin's life, from his days as a young newlywed reporting on the birth of his first child, through his early developments as an artist, and finally throughout the extraordinary adventure of his years in Tahiti and the Marquesas. Gauguin's writings, from Noa Noa to his Intimate Journals, show him to be a talented, uninhibited literary stylist, as far ahead of his time in words as he was on canvas. Nowhere is this more evident than in these letters to many of his closest associates and, above all, to his wife Mette, for whom he detailed his plans, described artworks in progress, and gave running accounts of his life and states of mind on distant shores. Now back in print after many years, Letters to His Wife and Friends remains one of the most revealing epistolary autobiographies ever assembled."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Originally published as Lettres à sa femme et à ses amis by Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, Paris, in 1946. This translation was originally published in 1949 by The World Publishing Company, Cleveland"--T.p. verso.