Feature: Gauguin’s ghost in Martinique

View across St Pierre toward Mt. Pelee

BY FIONA SAINT At the age of thirty-nine, the artist Paul Gauguin lived for around five months in an abandoned slave hut on the Caribbean island of Martinique. He later wrote:  I had a decisive experience on Martinique. It was only there that I felt like my real self, and one must look for me… Continue reading Feature: Gauguin’s ghost in Martinique