This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art.One day forty-year-old Charles Strickland, a London stock broker, leaves his business and his family and goes to Paris. He has neither money nor prospects, and he knows almost nothing about art, but he is seized with a passion to paint, and for the rest of his life, nothing else matters to him. He endures extreme poverty and social ostracism, and when he finally dies of leprosy in Tahiti, the few paintings that turn up for sale bring ...
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This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art.One day forty-year-old Charles Strickland, a London stock broker, leaves his business and his family and goes to Paris. He has neither money nor prospects, and he knows almost nothing about art, but he is seized with a passion to paint, and for the rest of his life, nothing else matters to him. He endures extreme poverty and social ostracism, and when he finally dies of leprosy in Tahiti, the few paintings that turn up for sale bring only six to ten francs apiece. But Charles Strickland had achieved his desire to create beauty, and with the years, the world fully recognizes his blazing genius.
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