Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Paul Gauguin (1897–1898)
A panoramic frieze staged in a Tahitian grove, Paul Gauguin’s Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? unfolds right-to-left as a cycle of life, from an infant at the far right to an aged woman at the far left. Amid saturated blues and ochres, a central figure reaches for fruit and a pale-blue idol stands motionless, creating a theatre of <strong>origin, desire, and destiny</strong> that never resolves into a single answer.
