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If you can set aside the more controversial and unsavoury aspects of Gauguin’s personal life choices, there’s much to like in this latest exhibition of his portraits at the National Gallery. The experience is a joy from beginning to end with the entire exhibition full of pictorial delights. I enjoyed the chronological display which walks us through Gauguin’s career, revealing the changes in his approach to his subject matter and his obsession with breaking tradition and developing a visual language that distinguished him from the Impressionists. His original use of heightened colour, which would later inspire Matisse and the Fauves, is clearly evident throughout – ochres, limes, tangerines and yellows shine brightly in many of the paintings, including a particular favourite of mine, Vahine no te vi (Woman with a Mango) of 1892. In his Portrait of Suzanne Bambridge of 1891, another favourite, he used an unconventional palette of turquoise, black and pink – visually stunning although the sitter apparently disliked it so much she hid it away.