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Look and learn
The greatest myth to affect Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) is the one of his own life: the romantic bohemian who escaped to the South Seas.
Room 9 is the hub of the exhibition, a small gallery filled with some of Gauguin’s very best and most lucid paintings: ‘Nevermore O Tahiti’, ‘What! Are You Jealous?’, ‘Where Are You Going?’, ‘Brooding Woman’ and ‘The Ancestors of Tehamana’. Room 10 features a stupendous series of colour woodcuts and another of zincographs on yellow paper. (Overload is imminent.) The final room houses another astonishing group of late Gauguins: ‘Tahitian Pastoral’, ‘The Ford (The Flight)’, ‘Delightful Days’. The facial features may have coarsened and become more bestial, but the colour is every bit as poetic and magical. Meanwhile, ‘Two Tahitian Women’ is breathtakingly lovely. There’s just too much here. Be kind to yourself: somehow find the time and money for a return visit.
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
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November 15th, 2010 11:01am Report this commentFrom whom may the catalogue be purchased if one is unable to visit the exhibition in person, please?
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