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This exhibit of the works of the great artist, who is noted especially for his Tahitian paintings, is one of the most comprehensive ever held and includes works from many great museums, such as the Louvre in Paris, and various private owners...
Typical of his best work were at least two pictures on exhibition last week: The White Horse, loaned by the Louvre, which shows a long-maned white horse drinking peacefully in a stream while in the background a nude Tahitian girl rides another horse back from the stream to the pasture, and The Call, now the property of Wildenstein & Co. in which three half-clad Tahitians stroll under slender trees against a dark tropical landscape...
...Mutiny on the Bounty" is one of those elemental pictures of drama in the rough. It is a staggering mixture of salt water, cruelty, agony, privation, and heroism, and it leaves the audience pleasantly exhausted. It is enriched but not softened by glimpses of tropical love and languorous Tahitian beauties...
...praise with which Paul Gaugin's painting, "Tahitian Idyll," has been received at the Fogg Museum this week well suggests the students' appreciation and endorsement of the service that the New York Museum of Modern Art is rendering to colleges through its circulation of one picture exhibitions...
Gaugin was the third and last artist in the present series of displays. The "Tahitian Idyll" admirably represents his style, largely developed during his life in the South Seas. The break with the Impressionistic influence of his early period, his indebtedness to Egyptian art, as well as his habits of composition are clearly represented in this work. Notwithstanding the influence that his technique has had, it was his greatest triumph to suggest that the function of art need not be to copy nature...