Art: Gauguin Prints

Print collectors prize the strange tropical prints of Paul Gauguin so highly that the general public gets only fugitive glimpses of them. Last week the recently renovated Brooklyn Museum contributed something new to understanding of the artist when it opened the first complete exhibition of Gauguin's graphic art, in a handsome show that gave added proof that the great Frenchman was one of the most fertile innovators of his pathbreaking time.

In his graphic art as in his best painting, Gauguin accomplished most after he had broken with his family, settled in....

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