In 1883 Paul Gauguin abandons his prominent banking career & decides that "from now on I will paint every day" The co
- founder of Synthetism & trailblazer of Expressionism turns his back on the bourgeois world leaves his wife & children & in 1891 sets out for the South Sea financing his journey through the sale of thirty paintings His thou ghts on art his existential worries his discovery of color & his search for paradise come to life again in the excerpts from his letters & statements compiled in this volume Together with some forty color reproductions of his works his biography a nd a preface by an expert the book introduces readers in a very special way to Gauguin&s universe