Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) continues to exert an extraordinary fascination through both his life and his works. This study focuses on the years from the artist's first journey to Tahiti in 1891 to his death in the South Pacific in 1903. During his stay in Tahiti, Gauguin achieved an unprecedented intensity of colour and formal simplicity in his painting. This volume presents many of Gauguin's paintings from these years, including pages from his illustrated book, Noa Noa. The accompanying text recounts the story of the artist's life in Tahiti, and examines his prodigious artistic output during that period.