The author of a brightly and talentedly written book about Gauguin, the French writer Henri Perruchot, is already known to the Soviet reader for his works about Cezanne, Van Gogh, Lautrec, and Manet translated into Russian. Perrucho is a brilliant expert on the artistic life of the second half of the 19th century. When writing a book about Gauguin, Perruchot used all available sources, including archival documents, so the facts presented in his work are highly reliable. Perruchot strives not only to evoke empathy for the artist in the reader, but also to explain to him the internal impulses of his work.