Gauguin (Paul) NOA NOA 204 pages, 19 full page colour drawing, 7 full page monchrome drawings,

204 pages, 19 full page colour drawing, 7 full page monchrome drawings, many other colour and monotone drawings, cream decorated paper boards - paperback, simply repaired at the top and the bottom of the spine, the contents have been repaired with tape, but are now detached from both covers, a good copy.

A facsimile reprint of Gauguin's original handwritten manuscript detailing his first visit to Tahiti (1891-1893)

Paul Gauguin first came to Tahiti in 1891 via Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, and Noumea, New Caledonia. He saw in Tahiti a chance to develop his art as well as developing an affinity with the indigenous people of Tahiti for whom he had a great admiration. The life and times of Paul Gauguin are vibrant and interesting and his work of art will be a lasting memorial to the people of Tahiti and to his own artistic genius.

Gauguin later wrote a travelogue (first published 1901) titled Noa Noa , originally conceived as commentary on his paintings and describing his experiences in Tahiti. In it he revealed that he had at this time taken a thirteen-year-old girl as native wife or vahine (the Tahitian word for "woman"), a marriage contracted in the course of a single afternoon. This was Teha'amana, called Tehura in the travelogue, who was pregnant by him by the end of summer 1892.

Teha'amana was the subject of several of Gauguin's paintings, including Merahi metua no Tehamana and the celebrated Spirit of the Dead Watching, as well as a notable woodcarving Tehura now in the Musée d'Orsay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gauguin