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Denmark 2024 - A man has just stumbled against an exhibit at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. The book is resting on a plinth, he
reached out to stablize everything as it was about to topple over.
Lisa is taking a photo of Van Gogh's Landscape from Saint-Remy (1889) in the background.
Next to that is Paul Gauguin's Apatarao (1893), a neighborhood of Papeete spelled Apaatarao these days, close to
where we stayed for the first week of The Big Trip.
The jury is out - or maybe it's in - on whether Gauguin was a prototype of what we now call a sexpat.
[Gauguin] spent his Tahitian years with an eye toward the French market, producing paintings, drawings, woodcuts, and
ceramics full of tropical clichés to sell at home. He also took three young wives (ages 13, 14, and 14), infected them
with syphilis, and eventually died from syphilitic complications at the age of 54 in the remote Marquesas Islands. --
Meredith Mendelsohn
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