Table of Contents
A Tempestuous Birth 8
A Distinguished Family 8
Childhood in Peru 8
The Return to France 10
Gauguin the Wanderer 10
A Respectable Career 10
The Solace of Art 12
Impressionism 12
Artistic Rivalries 13
Nude Study 14
A Momentous Decision 16
Life as an Artist 16
Sleeping Child 19
Breton Primitivism 22
Martinique Landscape 26
New Friends 28
Symbolism 28
Leader of a School 29
Vision After the Sermon 31
VanGogh Painting Sunflowers 34
Gauguin's Chair 34
The dining room at Marie Henry's 37
Christ in the Garden of Olives 40
Dreaming of the Tropics 43
Soyez amoureuses Vous Serez Heureuses 44
Paradise Lost 48
Savage Traces 49
Into the Jungle 49
Ia Orana Maria 51
Gauguin's Women 52
Teha'amana 53
Manao Tupapau 58
Becoming a Savage 61
Idol with a Pearl 61
A Vanished Culture 62
The Tahitian spirit world 62
Old Friends 64
Noa Noa 64
Breton Interlude 66
The Return to Tahiti 69
Illness and Depression 70
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 74
Colonial politics 76
The Marquesas Islands 79
The End Approaches 79
Glossary 82
For More Information 83
For Further Reading 85
Bibliography 86
Index 87
