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 ...

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin. By Sue Prideaux. Faber; 416 pages; £30. To be published in America by W.W. Norton in May 2025; $39.99 FOR AN AMBITIOUS, clear-eyed biographer, Paul Gauguin is ...

Credit: Paul Gauguin in a Breton Jacket, 1891 Of part Peruvian origin (Inca, he claimed), Gauguin projected his powerful, exotic features into a number of contrasting roles. In this painting ...

The show, which runs through 26 January, focuses on Paul Gauguin’s depictions of himself, his friends and fellow artists, and of the children he fathered and the young girls he lived with in Tahiti.

Transposed to the 21st century, Lafarge’s Paul is the boorish, middle-aged owner of Noa Noa, a Pyrenean organic farm (named after Gauguin’s book). The narrator, Frances, a shy woman with a ...

The authenticity of Paul Gauguin's 1903 self-portrait has long been the subject of debate. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons According to naval records, Paul Gauguin’s eyes were brown.

“Gauguin in the World,” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, can change our understanding of the work of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). Organized by the National Gallery of Australia, the MFA ...

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam got an unexpected surprise when it offered to do technical analysis on a famous Paul Gauguin painting known as The Little Cat (1888), which is currently on loan ...

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 ...

The 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.

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.