He is certain, what’s more, that Gauguin would not have painted the white cross in the background of both paintings, because he loathed the local bishop who had the cross erected and because ...

Still, given the hand-wringing and self-righteous mudslinging that have accompanied recent Gauguin exhibitions, the time is ...

Aside from what we learn through his own paintings and writings, little is known about Paul Gauguin’s time in Tahiti, clouding the artist’s exploits in the South Pacific in a self-eulogized ...

Paul Gauguin’s portraits painted in Tahiti ‘expanded the parameters of portraiture’, but they were exoticised for a Western market. Now, modern artists are subverting this legacy.

The images provide a fresh insight into Gauguin’s life in Tahiti in 1896. Two albums of Tahitian photographs taken by Jules Agostini came up for sale in a French provincial auction in July 2015.

Paul Gauguin, “Flowers and Fruit” (c. 1889) (all images courtesy Rowman & Littlefield) Subscribe to our newsletter. ... It is not, however, a painting that screams “Gauguin.” ...

Gauguin's 1899 painting Two Tahitian Women "could serve as a pinup in a tourist bureau," Morton says. It's a glamorous vision, ... And so it, too, underscored these images of lush, ...

His paintings’ Edenic world of sturdy, bare-breasted women was largely invented, informed by the “portable museum” of images of Western and non-Western art that he brought with him.

It pictures Gauguin’s teenage lover, holding a fan. The artist “repeatedly entered into sexual relations with young girls, ‘marrying’ two of them and fathering children”, reads the wall ...

Paul Gauguin's quest for artistic purity in Tahiti produced great work that influenced countless artists and movements. At the same time it cemented the western myth of a paradise with women ...