Sep
10
Painting penis
All you Gauguin enthusiasts will know that he often signed his works ‘P GO’. Sometime last year, when we were throwing around ideas about merchandising during the exhibition, someone came up with the lovely idea of commissioning a children’s book, featuring Gauguin’s animals, birds and etc, with the title ‘P GO’.
No doubt it conjured up images of cute little penguins or the like (‘Pingu’ anyone?) Until, that is, it was pointed out that the ‘name’ probably derived from nautical slang for penis.
- Christine Riding, ‘Everybody loves a sailor’, Tate Blog, 20 August 2010, <http://blog.tate.org.uk/?p=1360>
