A rare canvas by French artist Paul Gauguin from his time in Tahiti fetched €9.5 million (US$10.5 million) in Paris on Tuesday, nearly twice its estimated value, the auction house said.

He would remain in Polynesia until his death, apart from a two-year return to France, in hopes of selling paintings and winning acclaim. When Gauguin arrived in Tahiti, it was already transformed ...

In his later Tahiti paintings, Gauguin incorporates symbols of dreams and imagination. We also begin to see the colors that will characterize his work. Gauguin left Copenhagen for Brittany in ...