Gauguin's "Under the Pandanus"

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This paper, which includes a picture of the painting itself, begins by examining the contents of the painting. It then discusses why the inclusion of this painting in the Dallas Museum "10 Treasures" collection is problematic for several reasons, ranging from the fact that Gauguin is called a representative of European art and that the selection of this particular work of Gauguin was not his best.

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"Paul Gaugin was born during the 1848 revolution, and in 1883 (a stockbroker with five children and a wife with whom he had difficulties) met artist Camille Pissarro, one of the central figures in the Impressionist movement. This meeting marks one of the seminal influences in his life, one that took him away from the stockmarket and into the world of art collecting, and thence to collecting. This writer's interest in Gaugin was fired by viewing the recent Van Gogh touring exhibition and gazing at some of the paintings on display and wondering what about them created a desire to pay millions and millions of dollars for such works. In the tape recorded "tour" that went with the exhibit, there was some mention of the relationship between Van Gogh and Gaugin."

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