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The artist has lately been derided as a colonizer and a pedophile, the creep of the Post-Impressionists. A new book ...
And the background vegetation looks more like Tahiti than the Marquesas Islands, where Gauguin was living when he was supposed to have painted it. Fourmanoir isn’t your average weekend art sleuth.
Gauguin frequently used this earlier idea of androgyny to create an image of a transcending, hybrid identity in his paintings of female figures in Tahiti. The binary gender classification seems to be ...
A painting by French post-impressionist painter Paul Gauguin is to be sold in Paris in December in an auction expected to fetch at least 5 million euros ($5.48 million). The oil on canvas titled ...
Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti, directed by Edouard Deluc, follows the painter Paul Gauguin on his journey to Tahiti, into a collision with another culture and with himself. The French actor Vin-cent ...
An exhibition at the city’s Museum of Fine Arts provides an illuminating view of the painter’s long, restless career, gathering works made in places from Paris to Polynesia.
A new book is an art detective mystery, a behind-the-scenes look at provenance research, a psychological analysis, and a critical commentary on the art market.
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 ...
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.
Romantic, remote and mysterious are the immediate words that often come to mind when thinking about Tahiti and Bora Bora.