Gauguin: Off the Beaten Track
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| Gauguin: Off the Beaten Track (Gauguin, loin de la route) | |
|---|---|
| Date | 15 November 2013 |
| Page count | 88 pages |
| Publisher | Le Lombard |
| Creative team | |
| Writer | Maximilien Le Roy |
| Artist | Christophe Gaultier |
| Colorist | Marie Galopin |
| Original publication | |
| Language | French |
| ISBN | 9782803632015 |
| Translation | |
| Publisher | Europe Comics |
| Date | 8 June 2016 |
Gauguin: Off the Beaten Track (French: Gauguin, loin de la route) is a French comic book with script by Maximilien Le Roy and art by Christophe Gaultier, published by Le Lombard on 15 November 2013.[1] It is about the last years of the painter Paul Gauguin on the Marquesas Islands.
The story is told from the perspective of Victor Segalen, a French physician and archaeologist who arrives on the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia in 1903. He is curious about the painter Paul Gauguin, who settled on the islands a couple of years earlier, having rejected the materialism and superficiality he associated with metropolitan France. Gauguin's colonial life has been filled with alcohol, sex and depression, and he soon dies. Segalen traces Gauiguin's last two years and his relationship to the native population.[2]