the artist

In this novel, the famous English novelist Somerset Maugham tells the story of an artist who lived an ordinary life and suddenly left everything, his wife and children, for her. We will know that this person is the famous painter Paul Gauguin, far from the city, living on the remote island of Tahiti, painting his greatest works while on the verge of blindness, due to leprosy. Somerset Maugham said about the character of the painter "Charles Strickland" in the novel - and this is the name th...