Paul Gauguin: Tahiti Carvings Poster

Paul Gauguin. From a series of rare Tahiti Carvings by Gauguin. At the D'Orsay Museum, Paris, France. Image taken on location by Minerva Bloom. With permission to reproduce this image from D'Orsay Museum: Denise Faife Documentation du musée d'Orsay. In 1891, Gauguin, frustrated by lack of recognition at home and financially destitute, sailed to the tropics to escape European civilization and "everything that is artificial and conventional." (Before this he had made several attempts to find a tropical paradise where he could 'live on fish and fruit' and paint in his increasingly primitive style, including short stays in Martinique and as a labourer on the Panama Canal construction, before settling in Tahiti. Poster design by Minerva Bloom.