Paul Gauguin: References & Edit History
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Biographies of the artist include the memoir by his son, Pola Gauguin, My Father, Paul Gauguin, trans. by Arthur G. Chater (1937, reprinted 2007; originally published in Norwegian, 1937); RenĂ© Huyghe, Gauguin (1959, reissued 1995; originally published in French, 1959); and Belinda Thomson, Gauguin (1987). A selection of Gauguinâs writings is contained in Belinda Thomson (ed.), Gauguin by Himself (1993, reissued 2004). Exhibition catalogs include Heather Lemonedes et al., Paul Gauguin: The Breakthrough into Modernity (2009); and Belinda Thomson (ed.), Gauguin: Maker of Myth (2010). Contemporary critical assessments can be found in Marla Prather and Charles F. Stuckey (eds.), Gauguin: A Retrospective (1987, reissued 1989).
Studies of the artistâs life and works include Richard Brettell et al., The Art of Paul Gauguin (1988); Françoise Cachin, Gauguin, rev. and illustrated ed. (2003; originally published in French); and VojtÄch Jirat-WasiutyĆski and H. Travers Newton, Jr., Technique and Meaning in the Paintings of Paul Gauguin (2000).
Aspects of his time in Pont-Aven are explored in WĆadysĆawa Jaworska, Gauguin and the Pont-Aven School, trans. from French (1972; originally published in Polish, 1969); and H.R. Rookmaaker, Synthesist Art Theories: Genesis and Nature of the Ideas on Art of Gauguin and His Circle (1959; also published as Gauguin and 19th Century Art Theory, 1972).
The artistic exchange between Gauguin and van Gogh is examined in Martin Gayford, The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles (2006); Douglas W. Druick et al., Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South (2001), an exhibition catalog; and Debora Silverman, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art (2000). A detailed look at their legendary quarrel can be found in Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wildegans, Van Goghâs Ohr: Paul Gauguin und der Pakt des Schweigens (2008; âVan Goghâs Ear: Paul Gauguin and the Pact of Silenceâ).
Investigations of the influence of Oceanic cultures on Gauguin include Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk, Paradise Reviewed: An Intepretation of Gauguinâs Polynesian Symbolism (1983); Nicholas Wadley (ed.), Noa Noa: Gauguinâs Tahiti, trans. from French (1985); Bronwen Nicholson, Gauguin and Maori Art (1995); and Stephen F. Eisenman, Gauguinâs Skirt (1997).
Gauguinâs printmaking and drawing are treated in Caroline Boyle-Turner and Samuel Josefowitz, The Prints of the Pont-Aven School: Gauguin and His Circle in Britanny (1986); Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld, and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue RaisonnĂ© of His Prints (1988); and Douglas W. Druick and Peter Zegers, Paul Gauguin: Pages from the Pacific (1995).
Gauguinâs work with ceramics is explored in Christoper Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin (1963, reissued 1980); and Merete Bodelsen, Gauguinâs Ceramics: A Study in the Development of His Art (1964).
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Article History
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| Invalidated site: ABC listen - Late Night Live - Perspectives of Paul Gauguin's life and art in Polynesia. | Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jun 03, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | May 04, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum - Paul Gauguin. | Oct 16, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Late Night Live - Perspectives of Paul Gauguin's life and art in Polynesia. | Aug 07, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Web Gallery of Art - Paul Gauguin. | Apr 24, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Paul Gauguin, Self-Portrait with Portrait of Ămile Bernard (Les misĂ©rables). | Jan 16, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - Paul Gauguin: guilty as charged. | Sep 25, 2024 | ||
| Media added. | Jun 26, 2024 | ||
| Added cross-references. | May 17, 2024 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 12, 2024 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 09, 2024 | ||
| Media added. | Mar 08, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Artnet - Paul Gauguin. | Feb 20, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Art in Context - Paul Gauguin  Influential Primitivist Post-Impressionist. | Oct 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Paul Gauguin. | Aug 31, 2022 | ||
| Deleted photograph. | May 12, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Art Encyclopedia - Biography of Paul Gauguin. | Jan 22, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Guggenheim - Biography of Paul Gauguin. | Jan 22, 2019 | ||
| Changed title of the "Assessment" section to "Legacy." | Nov 15, 2017 | ||
| Added cross-references. | Dec 27, 2016 | ||
| Added video. | Jan 29, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Art Story - Paul Gauguin. | Aug 11, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Art UK - Biography of Paul Gauguin. | Aug 10, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Met - Biography of Paul Gauguin. | Feb 17, 2014 | ||
| Added photograph. | Apr 08, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Gallery of Art - Biography of Paul Gauguin. | Dec 27, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: TATE - Paul Gauguin. | Dec 27, 2012 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 04, 2012 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Mar 16, 2012 | ||
| Bibliography updated. | Mar 16, 2012 | ||
| Illustration of Mahana Atua added. | Mar 16, 2012 | ||
| Added photograph. | Aug 31, 2011 | ||
| Added image of Paul Gauguin's The Moon and the Earth (1893), a painting on burlap. | Jun 25, 2010 | ||
| Revised to mention recent scholarship by Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wildegans that argues it was Paul Gauguin who cut off a portion of Van Gogh's ear. | May 07, 2009 | ||
| Added "Van Gogh's Ear." | May 07, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Entertainment - Paintings by Paul Gauguin. | Feb 17, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: National Gallery of Art - Biography of Paul Gauguin. | Oct 13, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: WebMuseum - Paul Gauguin. | Aug 08, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: Olga's Gallery - Paul Gauguin. | Jun 19, 2006 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Artchive - Paul Gauguin. | May 10, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Dec 07, 2001 | ||
| Article revised. | Sep 28, 2001 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | May 04, 1999 |