spirit of the dead watching manao tupapau paul gauguinExploring the interstices between the world of the living and that of the spirit, Paul Gauguin's Spirit of the Dead Watching is a pictorial journey into the mystical and the beyond. This post impressionist work plunges us into a nocturnal scene, where light and darkness come together to tell a gripping story of the afterlife. In the centre of the painting, a young Tahitian woman, naked and vulnerable, lies on a white sheet, her anxious gaze directed