At the end of the 19th century, while Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and other Impressionist luminaries were lapping up the artistic pleasures of Paris, their colleague Paul Gauguin was elsewhere. To be precise, he was at home in the town of Punaʻauia in Tahiti, French Polynesia, sick, chronically short of money, and working on paintings that would soon wrench western art into a new era. Degas once described Gauguin as a “hungry wolf without a collar”, which seems apt for an enigmatic figure allergic to authority, one who made many friends and many more enemies.
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