Caroline Vercoe, Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Auckland, discusses the responses of contemporary artists and poets to Gauguin's paintings of Tahiti and Polynesia. Subtitles will be added in due course.
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Poet Selina Tusitala Marsh:
‘First Impressions: Paul Gauguin’ (2018) by Yuki Kihara:
The Credit Suisse Exhibition: Gauguin Portraits
7 October 2019 – 26 January 2020
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The first-ever exhibition devoted to the portraits of Paul Gauguin. Spanning his early years as an artist through to his later years spent in French Polynesia, the exhibition shows how the French artist revolutionised the portrait.
Exhibition organised by the National Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
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