Sue Prideaux.
SUE PRIDEAUX
WILD THING: A LIFE OF PAUL GAUGIN (2024)
Paul Gaugin (born 1848) was born into revolutionary France. In 1850 his family moved to Peru, returning to France due to financial difficulties. Gaugin started work as a stockbroker, but when he lost his job in the financial crisis of 1882 he decided to turn his interest in art into a career as a painter. In the 1880s he moved to Tahiti to escape the western world. There he married three adolescent Thaitian girls with whom he had children.
His paintings from this period were characterised by bold colour and form, evocative of Tahiti. His work became popular, and returning to France he developed close associations with Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Vincent and Theo van Gogh. His work became increasngly admired after his death in 1903.
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At the time of writing we were unable to find a video of Sue Prideaux talking about her book on Gaugin. The link above is to a discussion between Sue Prideaux and the author Ove Knausgaard, which provides an opportunity to meet her.
Sue Prideaux is an Anglo Norwegian biographer. Her first book, a biography of the artist Edvard Munch, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her second biography, of the playwright August Strindberg, won the Duff Cooper Prize. Her biography of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche won the Hawthornden Prize.
