Gauguin: A Dangerous Life
2019•U•58m•Released
Documentary
Gauguin’s vivid artworks sell for millions. He was an inspired and committed multi-media artist who worked with the Impressionists and had a tempestuous relationship with Vincent van Gogh. But he was also a competitive and rapacious man who left his wife to bring up five children and used his colonial privilege to travel to Polynesia, where in his 40s he took ‘wives’ between 13 and 15 years old, creating images of them and their world that promoted a fantasy paradise of an unspoilt Eden in the Pacific. Later, he challenged the colonial authorities and the Catholic Church in defence of the indigenous people, dying in the Marquesas Islands in 1903, sick, impoverished and alone.
Director
Patricia Wheatley
Languages
English
Studio
BBC Four
Cast
Dominic West
Voice of Paul Gauguin
Marcel Tai Gauguin
Mette Gauguin
Tai Shan Schierenberg
Tyla Vaeau
Kehinde Wiley
Paul Gauguin
Self (archive footage)
Production
Company
BBC Four
Company
BBC
Company
Gauguin Films Limited
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