{"product_id":"9780571365944-secondhand-wild-thing-a-life-of-paul-gauguin","title":"Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin","description":"A  TIMES ,  DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, ECONOMIST ,  NEW STATESMAN  AND  TLS  BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY LITERARY AWARD 2024 'Scintillating.'  FINANCIAL TIMES 'Immaculate.'  NEW STATESMAN 'Phenomenal.'  PROSPECT 'A heroic rehabilitation.'  THE TIMES Paul Gauguin is chiefly known as the giant of post-Impressionist painting whose bold colours and compositions rocked the Western art world. It is less well known that he was a stockbroker in Paris and that after the 1882 financial crash he struggled to sustain his artistry, and worked as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen, a canal digger in Panama City, and a journalist exposing the injustices of French colonial rule in Tahiti. In  Wild Thing , the award-winning biographer Sue Prideaux re-examines the adventurous and complicated life of the artist. She illuminates the people, places and ideas that shaped his vision: his privileged upbringing in Peru and rebellious youth in France; the galvanising energy of the Paris art scene; meeting Mette, the woman who he would marry; formative encounters with Vincent van Gogh and August Strindberg; and the ceaseless draw of French Polynesia. Prideaux conjures Gauguin's visual exuberance, his creative epiphanies, his fierce words and his flaws with acuity and sensitivity. Drawing from a wealth of new material and access to the artist's family, this myth-busting work invites us to see Gauguin anew.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49187683270875,"sku":"9780571365944-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/56df9721-7042-4289-949c-7bab5d7930a0_fe716cbf-1a18-4f1c-83a3-e0840f09c8b4.jpg?v=1787828561","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780571365944-secondhand-wild-thing-a-life-of-paul-gauguin","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}