"The life of Paul Gauguin (1848--1903), who abandoned his wife, five children, and a successful career as a stockbroker to paint in poverty in exotic Tahiti, is one of the legendary tales of the art wor"

* Introduction by Wayne Andersen Gauguin in France * Gauguins Beginnings * Notes on Art at the Universal Exhibition (July 4 and 11, 1889) * Who is Being Deceived Here? (September 21, 1889) * Huysmans and Redon (end of 1889) * Letter to J. F. Willumsen (late 1890) First Stay in Tahiti * Ancient Maori Religion * Notebook for Ailne Back in France * Noa Noa (end of 1893) * In Two Latitudes (May 1894) * About Svres and the Latest Kiln (April 25, 1895) * Interview with Paul Gauguin (May 13, 1895) Second Stay in Oceania * A Letter to Charles Morice (January 1897) * Miscellaneous Things (189698) * A Letter to Charles Morice (November 1897) * A Letter to Daniel de Monfreid (February 1898) * Against the Catholic Church * Two Essays * Le Sourire and Les Gupes (18991900) * Gauguin and the Art Speculators * Racantars de Rapin (1902) * Avant et Aprs (JanuaryFebruary 1903) * Last Writings (November 1902April 1903) * The Empire of Death (May 8, 1903)