During his years in Tahiti, first from 1891 to 1893 and again from 1895 until his death in 1903, Paul Gauguin painted the island's traditional thatched dwellings, or fare, set among palms and dense tropical vegetation. "Tahitian Hut" reflects his fascination with the built and natural landscape of the island, rendered in the flattened forms and rich, non-naturalistic color that defined his mature style. Paintings like this one were part of Gauguin's broader effort to depict a Tahiti he believed was more authentic and unspoiled than the colonial town of Papeete, even as the island was already being transformed by French rule.
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