Abigail Solomon-Godeau, in An in AmericaGauguin'sMyth (July 1989), 542 Pacific Ave., Marion, Ohio 43306.
Paul Gauguin's life (1848-1903) "is the stuff of which potent cultural fantasies are created. And indeed have been."
The tale is now well-known, writes Solo- mon-Godeau, an art historian. In 1886, the 38-year-old former stockbroker cast off his bourgeois existence, deserting his wife and five children in Copenhagen to paint full

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