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Gauguin and Tahiti.(Report from Europe/"Gauguin-Tahiti: The Tropical Studio" at the Grand Palais, Paris, France)

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One hundred years ago Paul Gauguin died at the age of fifty-five on Atuona in the Marquesa Islands after a peripatetic life. Born in France, he spent his childhood in Peru, made numerous journeys as a merchant seaman, sojourned in southern France, and made two attempts to return to basics by living in Tahiti and other places in the South Seas.

Arguably his greatest masterpiece, executed in 1897 and 1898 during his second stay in Tahiti, is the large canvas inscribed "D'ou venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Ou allons-nous?" (Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we ...

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