The colours are bright: tropical yellows, hot pinks, mango orange and cobalt ... and French Polynesia. “In Gauguin’s colonial depictions, Polynesian women were beautiful and subservient.” ...

The colours are bright: tropical yellows, hot pinks, mango orange and cobalt ... eroticised Polynesian women (vahine) by using transgender sitters. “Gauguin’s depictions of Tahiti have ...