[Salman Toor] My name is Salman Toor. I am a painter. I am from originally from Pakistan. This is Gauguin’s wife, and at the time, she was 15 years old or so, and she was pregnant. It's the image of a native Tahitian woman; I think it's curious that she's wearing a European missionary dress. You can see some of these dresses in other paintings by Gauguin that he did in Brittany. I don't know if that fruit has anything to do with the fact that she is pregnant, and, in a sense, she is advertising herself and the fruit as things that Gauguin can enjoy. It's an early image of a kind of European adventure abroad, an artist's early idea and now, which is a cliché idea, to kind of get away from the industrial urban hubs of Europe. He kind of enjoyed his unbridled sexual freedom, for which he is notorious now. It is a beautiful painting. The yellow and the purple of the painting just make it a moving celebration of decoration and of color. I'm not sure that Gauguin saw himself participating in exactly what he claimed to disdain, running away from Paris, and whether he could see that he couldn't separate himself from the civilization that he was from, and from his power, which is given by his civilization to him.