"Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Gauguin Tahiti," organized by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux, the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."--T.p. verso. Exhibition held September 30 2003-January 19, 2004 at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on February 29-June 20, 2004. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
V. Appendixes -- Gloria Groom. I. The First Polynesian Sojourn, June 1891-June 1893 -- Chronology of Gauguin's life, 1848-1903 / 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.
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