THE ART NEWSPAPER | Martin Bailey:
The only known photographs of Gauguin in Polynesia have been discovered in an album recently acquired by a Munich-based dealer. The album includes an image of a young Tahitian woman being kissed by the middle-aged artist, whose friend Dr Gouzer, a French ship’s doctor, is also shown with a local woman. The images provide a fresh insight into Gauguin’s life in Tahiti in 1896. Two albums of Tahitian photographs taken by Jules Agostini came up for sale in a French provincial auction in July 2015. One was acquired by the dealer Daniel Blau and the other by the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris… Read more
Image: Gauguin’s teenage mistress Pahura may be the woman stretched out in the photo, with him peering out above her. Photo Jules Agostini, © Daniel Blau, Munich
