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...position gives her weight within the picture, and by extension, the world. Even when, in The Ancestors of Tehamana, he painted the same girl more conventionally, in an upright and frontal pose and a modest Western dress, he placed her before a stylized background of native spirits and glyphic letters borrowed from the Rongorongo tablets of Easter Island. Those tablets have never been fully decoded. Neither has Gauguin. But the power of his mysteries brings us back to him over and over...
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