Publisher's Synopsis
This is two books for the price of one.First, it is about Emile: his famous family and his exciting life ... a tale of exhilarating highs and depressing lows nearly ending in suicide. But it ends happily ... when he meets co-author Frank.Second, it contains over 200 hundred pages of Gauguin resource material: A history of the Gauguin-Uribe families all in a single place, replete with unknown trivia such as-who rescued Paul's family from near poverty?-who taught Paul to paint?-who unknowingly launched the career of the creator of the world's second-most valuable painting?-how did Vincent van Gogh really lose his ear?Learn how two emperors impacted Paul's climb to fame.Find out about Paul's early, uncatalogued paintings.Meet Paul's grandmother (Chap. 2), mother (Chap. 3), brother-in-law, and nephew (Appendix).Meet new Gauguin painters, and Paul's great-grandchildren.See family trees with up to nine generations.It comes with: -a 5-page bibliography-a 6-page, Gauguin timeline stretching from 1773 to 2005, -a 21-page index, -a 32-page collection of photos, and-a 101-page appendix.Buy the book. Amaze your friends and teache
