In August, the Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation announced that it was dispersing all 63 artworks in its possession to three art museums: the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. Among the 29 artworks gifted to the Brooklyn Museum—many of them paintings and sculptures by Chaïm Soutine, Edgar Degas, and Amedeo Modigliani—is Paul Gauguin’s painted relief panel *Te Fare Amu*, dated to the late 1800s or early 1900s, depending on the source. The panel was initially intended to adorn the entrance to Gauguin’s home in Polynesia. The *Art Newspaper* published an interesting deep dive on the history of the suggestive panel, which Henry Pearlman purchased in Paris in 1954 from a French private collector. There is a crouching nude female figure on the left, who is depicted with red dots down her spine and exaggerated red lips.…