Where Do We Come From What Are We Where Are We Going

Across a vast Tahitian frieze, to be read from right to left, life unfolds from a sleeping infant through figures plucking fruit to a hunched old woman near death, with a blue idol and animals among the lush foliage. Gauguin painted this huge philosophical testament when, sick and despairing, he believed it would be his last work, inscribing its three great questions in the corner. Now in Boston, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? is his summa - a brooding, mysterious meditation on birth, life, and mortality.