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Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art

Chapter 11: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CONSULTED
By John Gould Fletcher
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The author traces the artist's life from early formation through Paris struggles, encounters with fellow painters, and exploratory travels that shaped his developing primitivist vision. Chapters follow artistic phases: experiments with color and symbolism, clashes with Impressionism, the Pont-Aven circle, Caribbean and Tahitian journeys that intensified a search for a purer, savage art, and later isolation and resistance to Western civilization. Attention is given to personal hardships—poverty, ill health, fraught friendships—and to the evolution of technique and themes: simplified forms, bold color, and mythic religious imagery that sought unity between humanity and nature.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CONSULTED

WORKS OF BIOGRAPHY:

1. Paul Gauguin par Jean de Rotonchamp, Imprimé à Weimar par les Soins du Comte de Kessler et se Trouve à Paris, chez Edouard Druet, Rue de Faubourg Saint Honoré, No. 114. 1906. Edition limited to 250 copies.

2. Gauguin, by Charles Morice. Floury, Paris, 1919. This and the preceding work are the standard sources of Gauguin's life.

3. Lettres de Paul Gauguin à Charles Daniel de Monfreid. Paris, Cres, 1919.

4. White Shadows in the South Seas, by Frederick O'Brien. New York, The Century Co., 1920. A travel book, with a few new sidelights on Gauguin's final period.

5. Avant et Après. Paul Gauguin aux Marquises. 1903. 100 copies only published in photo-reproduction from the original manuscript. A translation into German has also appeared. Kurt Wolf Verlag, Berlin, 1920.

WORKS OF ART CRITICISM IN ENGLISH:

1. Modern Painting, by Willard Huntingdon Wright. New York, The John Lane Company.