novel about a man who fears he's not living his life to its full potential night train to lisbon by. the french planes. was one of the greatest post-impressionist painters of the 19th century mark was sadly not appreciated in his lifetime and died in relative poverty in the french colonies in my case as islands in the south pacific in 93 he's particularly renowned for his experimental use of cholera at the time and of course is portraiture the national gallery in london is currently holding the 1st ever exhibition solely devoted to his portraits. of his most famous work on the pacific island of. the artist was fascinated by society's close to nature he travelled to what was then a french colony for the 1st time in 891. for a long time we thought these 2 fish to haitian portraits were sort of generic to