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Paul Gauguin may not have been a syphilitic perv after all....

An interesting article in today's Guardian on a new book that re examines his rather dubious reputation....

....driven by all the new material that began appearing in 2019, which coincided with the reopening of the debate about Gauguin’s troubling reputation. It seemed important to re-examine his life: not to condemn, not to excuse, but simply to shed new light on the man and the myth.

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