How does Maleuvre’s thesis and his explanation help us to interpret the colonial context of these images? Do you have any pushback against Maleuvre’s style of writing or way of presenting the French painter Paul Gauguin?
Paul Gauguin, Nafea Faaipoipo, When Will You Marry? 1892. Oil on canvas. 39.7 x 30.3 in. (101 x 77 cm). Private Collection.
Paul Gauguin, The Siesta, ca. 1892-1894. Oil on canvas. 35 x 45 3/4 in. (88.9 x 116.2 cm). The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1993, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002