Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin. By Sue Prideaux. Faber; 416 pages; £30. To be published in America by W.W. Norton in May 2025; $39.99 FOR AN AMBITIOUS, clear-eyed biographer, Paul Gauguin is an ...
The life of Paul Gauguin is the stuff of legend. Or several legends. There’s the Romantic visionary invoked by his friend August Strindberg—“a child taking his toys to pieces to make new ones, ...