Minneapolis Institute of Art

Fragrant Scent

Paul Gauguin

Date

1893–94

Medium

Woodcut in black ink with traces of red ink on Japan paper

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

In 1893 Paul Gauguin returned to Paris from his first trip to Tahiti and exhibited his new paintings to a bewildered public. After the critics panned his show, Gauguin wrote Noa-Noa to explain his Tahitian works. The woodblock prints he included in the book were meant to be translations, rather than reproductions, of paintings, sculptures, and drawings he had created in Tahiti. France, Europe

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