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 mystery.

Paul Gauguin, “The Ancestors of Tehamana or Tehamana Has Many Parents (Merahi metua no Tehamana) (1893), oil on canvas, 76.3 × 54.3 cm, The Art Institute of ...

An unfinished work in the collection of the Tate in London, long believed to be by the famous Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin, just got a major downgrade. Tahitians, circa 1891, has been ...

It’s the nude that bothers Fabrice Fourmanoir. The way she’s painted is “unsightly” and “vulgar,” quite unlike the Polynesian women of his mind’s eye. Nor does he like the way she’s artificially ...

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. How did a painting that was once coveted ...

Gauguin (1848-1903) was also self-taught in music and played several instruments, but he was mostly in painting. Prideaux suggests that Gauguin had synesthesia, a crossed-wires neurological condition ...

In a gallery that is elsewhere stuffed with naked white women, this exhibition’s avoidance of Gauguin’s unclothed Tahitians feels like an act of prudery – and even censorship Paul Gauguin was the ...

Paul Gauguin's Tahitian mistress Tehamana modeled for many of his South Seas works, including the lush Te Nave Nave Fenua (The Delightful Land), 1892. Ohara Museum of Art Paul Gauguin did not lack for ...

In 1890, at the age of 42, Paul Gauguin -- a merchant seaman, successful Paris stockbroker, full-time eccentric and Sunday painter -- was about to fulfill a romantic dream to go to the South Seas and ...

Paul Gauguin’s portraits painted in Tahiti ‘expanded the parameters of portraiture’, but they were exoticised for a Western market. Now, modern artists are subverting this legacy. The backdrop to the ...

The life of Paul Gauguin is the stuff of legend. Or several legends. There’s the Romantic visionary invoked by his friend August Strindberg—“a child taking his toys to pieces to make new ones, ...

Every year, it seems, there’s another movie about Vincent van Gogh. But what about his post-Impressionist pal Paul Gauguin? He might be the less-celebrated artist, but Gauguin’s story has everything — ...