Introduction / George T.M. Shackelford
I. The First Polynesian Sojourn, June 1891-June 1893
The paintings of the First Polynesian Sojourn / Claire Freches-Thory
Gauguin: artist and ethnographer / Philippe Peltier
Sculpture of the First Voyage / Anne Pingeot
II. The Return to France, August 1893-June 1895
The exhibition at Durant-Ruel / Claire Frèches-Thory
Noa Noa: the voyage to Tahiti / Isabelle Cahn
"Shapes and harmonies of another world" / Barbara Stern Shapiro
Oviri / Anne Pingeot
III. The Second Polynesian Sojourn, September 1895-May 1903
The return to paradise: Tahiti, 1895-1897 / George T.M. Shackelford
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? / George T.M. Shackelford
"I have everything a modest artist could wish" / Barbara Stern Shapiro
"Catholicism and the modern mind": the painter as writer in late career / Elizabeth C. Childs
Splendor and misery: Gauguin in the Marquesas Islands / George T.M. Shackelford
IV: After 1903
The House of Pleasure / Anne Pingeot
Koké and Tépéva: Victor Segalen in Gauguin's footsteps / Gilles Manceron
Belated recognition: Gauguin and France in the twentieth century, 1903-1949 / Isabelle Cahn
V. Appendixes
Gauguin in the Vollard Archives / Suzanne Diffre, Marie-Josèphe Lesieur
Chronology of Gauguin's life, 1848-1903 / Isabelle Cahn, Gloria Groom.