Paul Gauguin - General Tiki

Z Zeta Member Atlantis/Basque Country/Spain/Mexico Joined: Feb 13, 2007 Posts: 2105	Z Zeta Posted posted on Fri, Mar 27, 2009 11:02 AM Nice post Bigbro! On 2009-03-24 12:55, Pacific Andy wrote: There is always been a rumour in Tahiti in the town of Punaaia where he lived that when he left for the Marques Islands he left so much debt that the local ransacked his little house. Someone took the door where he painted a mural of the beach in Punaaia. The rumour is that someone on the island of Moorea has that door. Can you imagine how much it would be worth? In the prologue of a recent edition of NOA NOA the person who wrote the prologue tells the story of how he goes to where Gauguin's house door was and bought it from a local... So probably, the door is in some museum or collection somewhere, not in the wild... It is funny and poetic... He left that house broke and in debt and eventually someone took the door and sold it for a lot of pesos... The damned Gauguin Tiki

Nice post Bigbro!

On 2009-03-24 12:55, Pacific Andy wrote:
There is always been a rumour in Tahiti in the town of Punaaia where he lived that when he left for the Marques Islands he left so much debt that the local ransacked his little house. Someone took the door where he painted a mural of the beach in Punaaia. The rumour is that someone on the island of Moorea has that door. Can you imagine how much it would be worth?

In the prologue of a recent edition of NOA NOA the person who wrote the prologue tells the story of how he goes to where Gauguin's house door was and bought it from a local... So probably, the door is in some museum or collection somewhere, not in the wild... It is funny and poetic... He left that house broke and in debt and eventually someone took the door and sold it for a lot of pesos...

The damned Gauguin Tiki

Post #442954 by Zeta on Fri, Mar 27, 2009 11:02 AM