as well as the tropical landscape, were more to his liking because they were less Westernized. Gauguin acknowledged the demise of the old Tahitian order in his disquieting painting Arii Matamoe ...

A rare canvas by French artist Paul Gauguin from his time ... and his depictions of them. The 1897 painting, “Te Bourao II” or “tree” in the local Tahitian language, had been expected ...