The Story Behind Gauguin’s Biographic Noa Noa

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On the 8th of May 1903, the iconic French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin died in Atuona, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia. In 1891, Gauguin sailed to French Polynesia allegedly to escape European civilization and “everything that is artificial and conventional”. As a record of his travels, he ended upwritinga book titled Noa Noa describing his experiences in Tahiti. In past decades, more and moreallegations by modern critics point tothe fact that the contents of the bo...