The South Pacific is a rich collection of islands and archipelagos with a dizzying array of options for visitors. The easiest ...

If the Gauguin who emerges here is not easy to love, he does seem of a piece with the willfully contradictory, persistently gripping art he left behind. The biographical facts are improbably ...

The authenticity of the last known painting by Gauguin is under investigation after it was called into question by an amateur art sleuth.

T he first time Paul Gauguin was canceled, his last breath had scarcely left his body. The Paris-born painter, writer, ceramicist, sculptor, and art world enfant terrible had gone blind.

Tahiti and Bora Bora may be traditional honeymoon destinations, but they also make the ultimate playground for young kids.

Paul Gauguin, "Femmes de Tahiti (Tahitian Women)," 1891, oil on canvas, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. On view at the Museum of Arts, Houston's "Gauguin in the World" exhibit. TMN-Grand Palais/Art ...

Paul Gauguin’s art monster myth Sue Prideaux’s biography of the unruly French painter shows his story was more complicated than that of colonial seducer.

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.

Paul Gauguin was both master and monster. This was the view of the French writer Victor Segalen who arrived in the Marquesas to make an inventory of the late artist’s belongings. In the ...

Paul Gauguin created some of the most beautiful art the world has ever known. But the myth that surrounds his life has equally become his legacy.

Should a public art gallery exhibit his work, highlighting the fact he was a seriously flawed human being? Or is this to quietly condone domestic violence and paedophilia? I do not know the answer.

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