Sue Prideaux’s biography of the unruly French painter shows his story was more complicated than that of colonial seducer.

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a European who tirelessly campaigned for the rights of Polynesians even as he fetishised them as the remnants of a prelapsarian paradise. In this respect, Prideaux has succeeded—stunningly—in her task ...

Early scenes hint at a kind of prelapsarian innocence, and Thirsk remembers when ‘We were like sun-drenched butterflies and then we were like moon-struck moths.’ In addition, Crace authenticates his ...