Two Tahitian Women - Artist: Paul Gauguin - Year: 1899 A leading post-impressionist and frenemy of Vincent van Gogh, Gauguin abandoned his wife and children for a hedonistic life in the South Seas. Admired for over a century for his seemingly innocent portraits of Tahitian women, Gaughin was also a syphilitic sexual predator who molested countless young girls in his Polynesian pleasure palace dubbed “The House of Orgasm.”