The exhibition focuses on the book Gauguin wrote after his first trip to Tahiti, 'Noa Noa's Diary', with beautiful woodcuts illustrating the texts, printed by his friend Daniel de Monfreid.
This book was written on his return to Paris after his first stay in Tahiti. It tells of life in the Polynesian islands, the myths and ancestral beliefs that marked the rhythms of daily life. Mixing the stories of Tehuana, his young Tahitian companion, with sources and news from travel books, he created a work that caused a sensation and brought him to the attention of the Parisian world of the time.
An oil painting entitled Tahitiana accompanies these magnificent works by Gauguin, attributed to Gauguin, painted around 1891 and dating from the same period as a valuable watercolour - Polynesian Landscape with Hut - from the prestigious collection of the famous art critics Giovanni Testori and Alain Toubas of the Compagnia del Disegno in Milan.
