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Some Second thoughts on PAUL GAUGUIN tm. © 2008 by Paul Henrickson. Ph.D Émile Schuffenecker (December 8, 1851 - July 31, 1934) was a French Post-Impressionist artist, art teacher and art collector. A friend of  Paul Gauguin and Odi lon Redon, and one of the first collectors of works by Vincent van Gogh , Schuffenecker was instrumental in establishing the Volp ini exh ibit ion, in 1889. His own work, however, tends to have been neglected since his death—and even worse, recent season campaigns in the media have reactivated resentments virulent since the late 1920s, when Schuffenecker was suspected to have imitated the work of other contemporary artists, among them, Van Gogh. [citations needed ] Still a contentious issue, it has not  been established whether he produced forgeries. Meanwhile, serious scholarly research at least has provided the base for a sober art historical approach to Schuffenecker's life and work. I do not know who the author of the above may be, but part of what he describes offers me a good starting point for discussing the work of Gaugu in. Schuffenenecker we are told was a friend of Paul Gauguin and while n othing here is said about the nature of the friendship it is reasonable to suppose he may have said something in Gauguin’s presence about art that ignited a series of conflicting doubts and expectations in what was, probably, already a r ebellious mind. Some do not readily accept society’s description of the parameters of real ity. Emile Schuffenecker Paul Gaugin was the son of a French journalist and a Peruvian Creole, whose mother had been a writer and a follower of Saint-Simon, he (PG)was brought up in Lima, joined the merchant navy in 1865, and in 1872 began a successful career as a stockbroker in Paris. Nancy Mowll Mathews traces the themes of sex and violence through the artist's life, from the near-murderous quarrels of his grandparents, to his abusive treatment of his wife, to his sexual encounters in French Polynesia in the 1890s. The book examines how Gauguin used

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