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Exploring Paul Gauguin’s Search for the ‘Primitive’ in Tahiti
The French postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin arrived on board the Vire in Papeete, Tahiti, late at night. His first vision was of “strange fires, moving in zigzags on the sea” and rising in the darkness behind them a pitch-black jagged cone. Gauguin …