Gauguin

By Marina Robbiani, Paul Gauguin

Subjects: Exhibitions, Primitivism in art

Description: Drawing upon a selection of over 80 masterpieces, this catalogue and the exhibition it accompanies explore the entire career (paintings, drawings, prints, wood-carvings, ceramics) of the restless French artist Gauguin, analysing the primitive tendency as ideology, as an artistic practice, and lastly as a heritage of vast importance for the development of painting through the entire 20th century.