Delightful Land. Artist: Paul Gauguin (French, Paris 1848-1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands). Dimensions: 13 3/4 x 8 in. (34.9 x 20.3 cm) block18 3/4 x 10 11/16 in. (47.6 x 27.2 cm) paper. Series/Portfolio: Noa Noa (suite of ten woodcuts). Date: 1893-94.Gauguin spent much of his time in Paris in 1893-94 working on the text and illustrations for Noa Noa (Fragrance). The project began as a narrative to guide an uncomprehending public through Gauguin's personal and artistic perceptions of Tahiti, but ultimately became more complex and mysterious than anything he had produced in the South Seas. The remarkable series of ten woodblock prints that Gauguin designed as illustrations bear little relationship to his romanticized autobiographical text. Nor do they seem to follow any particular sequence. However, the imagery and themes of the prints--love and fear, creation and death, day and night--relate closely to those of Gauguin's Tahitian paintings.The Noa Noa woodcuts were seen for

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Delightful Land. Artist: Paul Gauguin (French, Paris 1848-1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands). Dimensions: 13 3/4 x 8 in. (34.9 x 20.3 cm) block18 3/4 x 10 11/16 in. (47.6 x 27.2 cm) paper. Series/Portfolio: Noa Noa (suite of ten woodcuts). Date: 1893-94.Gauguin spent much of his time in Paris in 1893-94 working on the text and illustrations for Noa Noa (Fragrance). The project began as a narrative to guide an uncomprehending public through Gauguin's personal and artistic perceptions of Tahiti, but ultimately became more complex and mysterious than anything he had produced in the South Seas. The remarkable series of ten woodblock prints that Gauguin designed as illustrations bear little relationship to his romanticized autobiographical text. Nor do they seem to follow any particular sequence. However, the imagery and themes of the prints--love and fear, creation and death, day and night--relate closely to those of Gauguin's Tahitian paintings.The Noa Noa woodcuts were seen for

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