GAUGUIN'S BRUSH WITH ART CHANGED HIS LIFE AND OTHERS.(L.A. LIFE)(Review)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: March 10, 1996 | Copyright information

Byline: Michiko Kakutani The New York Times

Title: "Paul Gauguin: A Life"

Author: David Sweetman

Data: 600 pages, Simon & Schuster; $35

Our rating: Three Stars

Like his friend and colleague Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin has suffered the fate of the artist who achieves enormous posthumous fame in our celebrity-conscious age: Even as his paintings have skyrocketed in value, his life has been mythologized, reduced to a flimsy caricature of bohemian rebellion.

While van Gogh has been turned into a symbol of the tortured artist, Gauguin has been memorialized ...

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