The Hibiscus Tree (Te Burao)  1892

[i]Gauguin likely completed Te burao (The Hibiscus Tree) at the midpoint of his first sojourn in Tahiti—either in the spring or the fall of 1892. In the previous spring, when Gauguin left Paris for his “studio of the tropics,” his goal was to find a place far removed from the overwhelming struggles he felt living in modern European society. Moreover, as art critic Octave M...