Excerpt from The Arts, Vol. 2: Reviewing November 1921<br><br>The picture is a happy union of two sometimes antagonistic elements, decoration and realism. The upper half is almost pure realism, - the grove of stately palms, their leaves touched by the declining sun against a background of pinky-lavender hills and tropic sky. In the lower half, on the other hand, two strange and solemn figures sit in shadow before translucent water in whose depths are reflected exotic farms and colors. Sweeping roots of the burao tree twine across the foreground and circle around the pool of purplish blue. Color, as ever in Gauguin, exercises its hypnotic power and casts a spell upon the observer, strange pinks and lavenders, greens, and acrid yellows, uniting in a whole of potent charm.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.