Paul Gauguin
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Paul Gauguin was a French post-impressionist painter best known for his paintings of Tahiti.
Involvement with Theosophical Society
Among Gauguin's French neighbors in Punaauia was Jean Souvy, who shared some of his intellectual interests:
The main interest Souvy held for Gauguin lay in his personal studies, he was a Theosophist, part of the spreading network launched by Madame Blavatsky, furnished with publications through the San Francisco branch of the Society. Throughout his rtirement Souvy worked on a collection of thought on various philosophical and Theosophist topics which he entitled Cogitations... They reveal a mind running on lines close to Gauguin's, especially the, when his thoughts were once again turning to religious topics...[1]
Resources
The Union Index of Theosophical Periodicals lists 7 articles by or about Paul Gauguin.
Notes
- ↑ David Sweetman, Paul Gauguin: Complete Life (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995), 432.