Gauguin's Noa Noa

This work offers an opportunity to see at first hand a selection of pages from Noa Noa, the painted manuscript that is Gaugin's personal record of the time he spent in the South Pacific. Kept today in the Louvre, this intimate journal contains the artist's day-to-day writings interspersed with brightly painted watercolours and woodcuts. Exotic landscapes and richly imaginative scenes are illustrated here in detail. A text by Marc Le Bot explores the history of this document, showing how it can provide a deeper understanding of Gaugin's artistic language and meaning.