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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.” ...

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 ...

Gauguin, in his last three years, had written this wonderful manuscript — 200 pages, lots of pictures — and he called it “Avant et Après,” “Before and After,” and it’s his summing ...

At the same time, Gauguin is controversial. Today, for many, the facts of his life mar his art—particularly the time he spent in Tahiti, then a French colony, where he married a succession of girls.