Noa Noa

Paul Gauguin, Jonathan Griffin, Paul Gauguin , Jonathan Griffin

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French

Pallas Athene Publishers
01 August 2023

Art & design styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs

Series: Lives of the Artists

One of the great classics of modern art back in print: 'amusing, acid, wide-eyed, moving'.

Gauguin's great diary from Tahiti almost never saw the light of day in its original form. The manuscript was sent by the artist from his island refuge to his friend Charles Morice in Paris, and published in 1901 with immediate success, under the two names of Paul Gauguin and Charles Morice. Morice, with Gauguin's permission, had 'edited' and enlarged it to make it more readable. How much of the charm and crispness of the manuscript had been lost in the process was anyone's guess.

It was to be forty years before Gauguin's original version came to light, and it is published here in a translation by the poet Jonathan Griffin, together with a detailed description by the art historian Jean Loize, who re-discovered the manuscript. Loize shows that Morice had in parts altered Gauguin's text beyond recognition a startling discovery that entirely changed ideas about Gauguin's style and intentions.

This genuine version of Noa-Noa is not only an important document it is also a beautiful piece of writing: amusing, acid, wide-eyed, moving. Gauguin feared that, unedited, it would seem absurdly crude, and no doubt it would have, to most readers in his day. Today we can appreciate its sketch form, jerky directness, authentic freshness.

This edition is illustrated with the watercolours, wood-engravings and drawings that Gauguin assembled for the book. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) escaped a career as a stockbroker in Denmark to paint. Although he has since become recognised as one of the founders of modern art, he found it difficult to make a living, and in 1891 sailed for Polynesia to escape 'civilisation'. He stayed there, on and off, till his death in the Marquesas islands twelve years later.

31 colour illustrations

By: Paul Gauguin
Illustrated by: Paul Gauguin
Edited by: Jonathan Griffin
Translated by: Jonathan Griffin
Imprint: Pallas Athene Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 145mm, Width: 114mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 106g
ISBN: 9781843680611
ISBN 10: 1843680610
Series: Lives of the Artists
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 01 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) escaped a career as a stockbroker in Denmark to paint. Although he has since become recognised as one of the founders of modern art, he found it difficult to make a living, and in 1891 sailed for Polynesia to escape 'civilisation'. He stayed there, on and off, till his death in the Marquesas islands twelve years later.

Reviews for Noa Noa

""The London publishing house Pallas Athene has come up with the very welcome and worthwhile project of assembling English translations of early biographies of artists in an easily accessible publication."" - Historians of Netherlands Art Reviews