E arly in 1891, Gauguin left for Tahiti, where he began a series of paintings that depict the physical beauty of the people and the myths underlying their traditional religion. The series evokes the Tahitian cycle of existence from birth through maturity to old age and death. Gauguin visited France for the last time in 1893-95, then returned to Tahiti. The paintings of his final years project an idealized vision of native life, removed from both time and actuality in its conception of the physical and spiritual dimensions of Tahitian culture. His last journey was to La Dominique in the Marquesas, where he died.
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