Focus on this artwork and explain the History.
In 1891, Gauguin sailed to Polynesia to escape the evils of European civilization and "everything that is artificial and conventional". To his disappointment, Polynesia was already tainted by European influences when he first arrived in his long-dreamed-of paradise.His works of that period are full of quasi-religious symbolism and an exoticized view of the inhabitants of Polynesia. 
In 1896, he painted Nave Nave Mahana in Tahiti after he came back from a short stay in France.The painting was exhibited at the Grand Palais in Paris as part of the Gauguin the Alchemist exhibition which was held from October 11, 2017 to January 22, 2018.
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