Gauguin: Artists in Focus

The lush, colorful paintings of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) revolutionized modern painting at the turn of the last century. Gauguin's travels -- which took him to Brittany, Panama, Martinique, Provence, Tahiti, and the Marquesas Islands -- inspired some of the history of art's most imaginative visions of paradise. This engaging book will entrance art lovers with quality reproductions of his outstanding paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture in the Art Institute of Chicago's permanent collection.Publication of Gauguin coincides with a major exhibition on Van Gogh and Gauguin organized by the Art Institute of Chicago with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.Salvesen Britt is the author of 'Gauguin: Artists in Focus', published 2001 under ISBN 9780810967397 and ISBN 0810967391.