Paul Gauguin [antikvár]

Plate 2. women at the river. Woodcut^ 1891-93Museum of Modern Art, Neiu York (Lillie P. Bliss Coll.)The life of Paul Gauguin was so crammed with adventures of all kinds that even a matter-of-fact account cannot decrease its dramatic interest. He was born in Paris in 1848, the year of the second French Revolution; but when reaction took over again a little later, his father, a liberal journalist, had to go into exile. Paul Gauguin was three years old when his parents took him to Peru, the president of that country being a relative of his mother. The child's father died on the voyage, and his mother remained in Lima for only four years. Back in France the boy was raised in Orléans until, at seventeen, he went to sea as an apprentice in the merchant marine and sailed