The Moon and Sixpence
by William Somerset Maughamliterary work· published 1919
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The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin. The novel is told first-person, dipping episodically into the mind of the artist. Charles Strickland is an English stock broker, who leaves everything behind him in his middle age to live in defiant squalor in Paris as an artist. His genius is eventually recognized by a Dutch painter.
Adaptations (1)
The Moon and Sixpence was adapted into a 1942 film.
The Moon and Sixpence1942 · film · 89 min · dir. Albert Lewin · IMDb ↗IMDb6.7Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
