After examining the French artist Paul Gauguin’s The Little Cat with X-ray imaging, experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam are unraveling the painting’s secrets—including a hidden beetle.

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.

The exhibition at the Frist Art Museum includes works by the likes of Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Gauguin.

New York art advisor Todd Levin, who had heard rumors of the Gauguin sale, told the NYT that “The price quoted to me at that time was in the high 200 millions, close to 300 million.” ...

A colorful 1892 painting by artist Paul Gauguin sold for a record $300 million. WSJ's Kelly Crow discusses how such a sale will impact the art market. Photo: AP ...

One caveat. Many of Gauguin’s most celebrated canvases are too fragile to travel. The show includes enough compelling, well-known paintings, but its strength is in less familiar works ...