All good times come in three. After the perfect Javanne tarot and the acceptable Tromborg tarot, a third Danish tarot has come into my hands: Tarot de Paul Gauguin. The painter Paul Gauguin was for a period married to a Danish woman and has several descendants in Denmark, some of which are quite well-known. Maria Gauguin, who created this deck, is a Danish great-grand child who apparently felt that time now has come to manifest herself in artistic circles. She got hold of an illustrated book with her great-grandfather's paintings and with a pair of scissors in her hand and a couple of hours work, this 22 card deck was created.

In many ways, Gauguin could have been a relevant painter to base a valid tarot deck upon, but it should not be so this time. Instead this deck is a perfect example of how boring a tarot deck can be when it is created by people with only a superficial knowledge of tarot, with no artistic abilities or imagination and who want to take advantage of a great grandfather's famous name. The text in Danish in the little white book attempts, with not much success, to connect each Marseille tarot card with those eternal myths the author declares are inherent in Gauguin's paintings. Instead of focusing on details in the paintings, the concept is rather to render a whole or a great part of a large painting on the minimal space. When it comes to landscape format paintings about half of the card space is just empty.

The 22 cards + title card and 2 blank cards and the 28 pages booklet come in a wobbly plastic case, which does not fit the deck too well. The captions are in Danish, French and English.