Paul Gauguin

French Artist · 1848–1903

5 works across 2 collections on LinkedCulture

> May the day come soon when I'll be myself in the woods of an ocean island! To live there in ecstasy, calmness and art.... There in Tahiti I shall be able to listen to the sweet murmuring music of my heart's beating in the silence of the beautiful tropical nights. > > --Paul Gauguin > > Writing to his wife in 1887, Paul Gauguin expressed his desire to seek an earthly paradise in the South Seas. H