adumbrate

There could have been a different outcome but for reasons too dull to adumbrate, we’ll leave it there.

Passages of the original work underlined and adumbrated with exclamation marks and double or even treble question marks; phrases scored out and notes running down the margin at right angles to the printed text.

In between, works by contemporaries complicate superficial ideas about his meteoric genius, and small, delicate drawings teem with an abundance of ideas — paintings never made, thoughts adumbrated then abandoned.

But the happy chance to show a tranche of Gauguin pieces somehow morphed into an exhibition about his putative “spiritual journey,” which is adumbrated but not proved.

The interpolated notebook entries, meanwhile, adumbrate a serpentine journey through Poland, Budapest, Belgrade, Croatia, Odessa, Sofia and Bucharest.