The amorous passion of a Maori courtesan is something quite different from the passivity of a Parisian cocottesomething "very different!
SO wrote a French stockbroker named Paul Gauguin, who left his wife and secure career and went in search of the very place of love. He found it with the Maoris of Tahiti, and many of his pictures, such as the woodcut opposite, attest the artistic success of his quest. But it was a therapeutic disaster to himself; he died in the islands, of syphilis, malnutrition and a failing heart. Last week some 200 of his works, including 75 of his prints,...
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