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La straordinaria carica innovativa di Gauguin in un eccezionale catalogo monografico.
This catalogue, produced for the large exhibition in Rome, brings together a selection of 150 works by Gauguin, creating a unique opportunity to view the artist’s entire artistic path, from his debut impressionist works to his final masterpieces created in the remote Marquesas Islands.
These final paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints are often melancholic in the way they clearly long for health, friendship and the dream of pleasure, which never disappear.
In 1891, just prior to leaving for the southern seas, Gauguin used the metaphoric language of Virgil to describe his desire to find an Arcadian kingdom "of ecstasy, peace and art, far from the struggle for money that is typically European".
In fact, Gauguin found more than he expected in Tahiti and the Marquesas: the primitive order that he dreamed no longer existed, and the richness and complexity of the life he found stimulated the creation of a series of works that are among the most vivid and long-lasting in art history.
Stephen F. Eisenman teaches Art History at the Northwestern University of Evanston in Illinois. He has published numerous critical studies on modern art and is an expert on art movements from the end of last century.
Gauguin 
L' Aventure de Pont-Aven et Gauguin 
Gauguin e la Bretagna 
