Gauguin's Letters from the South Seas

Great painter’s 64 letters to his friend and fellow artist Georges Daniel de Monfreid intimately reveal his intense struggles to live and work in Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands in the last 12 years of his life. Subjects range from problems working with paints and canvas in the tropics to thoughts on artists of the past and present; collection offers many rewarding insights into the psychology of the man and the artist.