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Paul Gauguin and the Search for Paradise
Opening in February 2012, The Seattle Art Museum presents a blockbuster exhibit “Gauguin and Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise,” a major show which pairs 60 of Gauguin’s paintings and sculpture with Polynesian native arts. As a preview to this important exhibit, Susan Olds presents a slide lecture covering Gauguin’s years in Paris and the Pacific Islands. The presentation which includes over 100 images of Gauguin’s work, traces the development of Gauguin’s style, theories about art and his quest for a more elemental, primitive life away from Western civilization. Excerpts from Gauguin’s South Seas journal, Noa Noa, will accompany the slide lecture, along with Gauguin’s letters to his family, Vincent van Gogh and other artists.