A new biography of the French painter brims with reputation-redeeming surprises about the rascal of the South Seas.

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It’s hard to know what to make of Paul Gauguin. Postimpressionism is an umbrella term for European painters such as Gauguin who moved beyond the plein-air (“outdoor”) breakthroughs of Degas, Renoir ...