Accompanying an exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemsiza museum, this book reveals the double facet of the artist and his legacy by detailing a series of successive encounters between Gauguin and his masters, his contemporaries, and his pupils. One of the key paradoxes concerning Paul Gauguin is the fact that he was both a profound individualist and at the same time the founder of an artistic school. For the young artists collectively known as the Nabis, Gauguin's personal version of symbolism became the canonical route to modern art. Acompanando una exhibicion en el Museo Thyssen-Bornemsiza, este libro revela la personalidad doble del artista y su legado a traves de una serie de roces entre Gauguin y sus maestros, sus contemporaneos y sus pupilos. Una de las paradojas claves de Paul Gaguin es que fue una persona extremamente individualista pero al mismo tiempo el fundador de una escuela de las artes. Para los jovenes artistas conocidos como los Nabis, la vision personal del simbolismo de Gauguin se volvio una ruta canonica al arte moderno.