RT Journal
A1 Harris JC
T1 WHere do we come from? what are we? where are we going?
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 2011
FD November 1
VO 68
IS 11
SP 1090
OP 1090
DO 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.143
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2011.143
AB 
In 1891, after the failure of the Studio of the South,3 Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) set off for Tahiti, seeking a simpler life. Finding its capital thoroughly colonized by the French, he settled in the countryside and took a vahine (Tahitian wife). The 13-year-old girl, Tehura, had reached the local age of sexual consent, and her parents had given their permission.2 Two years later in 1893, sorely in need of financial support, Gauguin returned to France with high hopes of a triumphant return to the Paris art world. An exhibit of his Tahitian paintings was widely advertised. To his surprise, his art did not sell.