Gauguin: A Spiritual Journey

$60.00 at de Young Museum.

Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903) aspired to succeed and innovate as an artist. His relationships with artists, dealers, and others deeply influenced his practice and his Danish wife, Mette, was one of the most important figures in the narrative of his life. Gauguin’s aesthetic quest led him to travel from France to the far reaches of the Pacific and he arrived in Tahiti under the auspices of the French Ministry of Fine Arts in 1891. Immersed in colonial Tahiti, with its complicated mix of ancient culture and…