For much of his life, Paul Gauguin railed against the deadening effects of bourgeois domesticity. But as Sue Prideaux writes ...

Sue Prideaux’s latest biography paints a vivid portrait of Paul Gauguin, the towering artist whose bright colors, flat planes, symbolism, and naked, dark-skinned Polynesian women paved the way ...

Framing Art History’s Most Famous Friendships—and Fallouts Museums and galleries are increasingly highlighting the great collaborations and rivalries behind the world’s best-loved masterpieces.

Print collectors prize the strange tropical prints of Paul Gauguin so highly that the general public gets only fugitive glimpses of them. ... Art: Gauguin Prints. 2 minute read.

According to naval records, Paul Gauguin’s eyes were brown. In early self-portraits, the French artist painted himself with a crooked nose, and he scrawled a signature and date in the corners.

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 ...

Paul Gauguin, Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin, 1889. Two Nudes on a Tahitian Beach, 1891-94 On Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands, Gauguin built his Maison du Jouir amid the coconut palms, minutes from ...

An important Gauguin sculpture from Tahiti is not what it seems. Although entitled Idol with a Pearl, the pearl on the forehead was actually added nearly 30 years later, long after the artist’s ...

Art amassed by late Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen brought in more than $1.6 billion at Christie’s over two days of sales this week, setting the record for the most valuable single-owner art ...

This Amateur Art Detective Thinks Paul Gauguin’s Last Self-Portrait Is a Fake The new allegations come from Fabrice Fourmanoir, who previously identified a fraudulent Gauguin sculpture that the ...