Gauguin Tahiti /
The life of Paul Gauguin is one of the richest and most mythic in the history of Western art. A banker and "Sunday painter," he left behind family and homeland and sailed to the South Seas, seeking a life "in ecstasy, in peace, and for art." Gauguin Tahiti, the first major retros...
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MFA Publications,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / George T.M. Shackelford
- I. The First Polynesian Sojourn, June 1891-June 1893
- The paintings of the First Polynesian Sojourn / Claire Freches-Thory
- Gauguin: artist and ethnographer / Philippe Peltier
- Sculpture of the First Voyage / Anne Pingeot
- II. The Return to France, August 1893-June 1895
- The exhibition at Durant-Ruel / Claire Frèches-Thory
- Noa Noa: the voyage to Tahiti / Isabelle Cahn
- "Shapes and harmonies of another world" / Barbara Stern Shapiro
- Oviri / Anne Pingeot
- III. The Second Polynesian Sojourn, September 1895-May 1903
- The return to paradise: Tahiti, 1895-1897 / George T.M. Shackelford
- Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? / George T.M. Shackelford
- "I have everything a modest artist could wish" / Barbara Stern Shapiro
- "Catholicism and the modern mind": the painter as writer in late career / Elizabeth C. Childs
- Splendor and misery: Gauguin in the Marquesas Islands / George T.M. Shackelford
- IV: After 1903
- The House of Pleasure / Anne Pingeot
- Koké and Tépéva: Victor Segalen in Gauguin's footsteps / Gilles Manceron
- Belated recognition: Gauguin and France in the twentieth century, 1903-1949 / Isabelle Cahn
- V. Appendixes
- Gauguin in the Vollard Archives / Suzanne Diffre, Marie-Josèphe Lesieur
- Chronology of Gauguin's life, 1848-1903 / Isabelle Cahn, Gloria Groom.