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Sarah Crouch

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Very much agree Carol!
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Peter Smith

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Look how Gaugin treated his own wife and children! Then there were the very young girls on the islands...............not a nice man. Personally I don't think he was much of a painter either but that's another can of worms! I'll have a look at that book Sarah, thanks. If you haven't read the Murphy book I really recommend it, much of it is about the same period.
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Sarah Crouch

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Thanks Peter, will look it up!
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Gauguin WAS a good painter - you might not like his hard-edged, highly coloured Tahitian work, but he was capable of more conventional techniques.   As a human being, he was a horror.... and probably the last "friend" poor van Gogh needed in his life. These days, Gauguin would be lucky to avoid prison - maybe if he'd gone there he wouldn't have contracted the syphilis that helped to do him in...
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Peter Smith

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'The Yellow House' has arrived, another cracking read - many thanks Sarah.
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Sarah Crouch

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Brilliant, Peter! Really pleased you like it! Have got myself a copy of the Bernadette Murphy book so thanks to you too. It's on my 'to read' pile!!
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Peter Smith

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Good, you'll enjoy it Sarah.
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I've just finished reading 'The Yellow House' and what strikes me most forcibly is that Gaugin comes across as a much more sympathetic character than I'd expected. Even more surprisingly his mother lived in St Cloud which is where my sister lives now! I'll read it again now, more slowly.
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Sarah Crouch

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Well done Peter, I must re read it myself soon!
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