Still, given the hand-wringing and self-righteous mudslinging that have accompanied recent Gauguin exhibitions, the time is ripe to ask what we actually know, and how that knowledge should impinge on ...

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin. By Sue Prideaux ... In an act of transgression, he depicted exotic, eroticised Polynesian women as Venus and the Virgin Mary. When Gauguin died in 1903 ...

46 x 55 cm. (18.1 x 21.7 in.) ...

The show, which runs through 26 January, focuses on Paul Gauguin’s depictions of himself ... Elsewhere, his “relationship with a young Tahitian woman” was changed to “his relationship ...

10.5” H x 16.5” W, Framed 20.5” H x 26.5” W ...

Paul Gauguin, Three Tahitians (Trois Tahitiens ... “What’s striking about the stories of the women Gauguin was involved with was that they really came and went,” Thomas says.

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 ...

By Jillian Steinhauer A pioneer of the Black Arts Movement in Britain, Claudette Johnson now has her first solo show at a major museum in London — steps away from Gauguin. By Farah Nayeri A ...

Paul Gauguin is both well-known and underappreciated ... One wall features three pictures of women — they are not portraits of any individual, but rather composites to show life of the people.

Gauguin wrote of his Tahitian women that she: lives almost as do animals […] like she-cats, she bites when in heat and claws as if coition were painful. She asks to be raped. […] Giving her a ...

Paul Gauguin’s 1892 oil painting “Nafea Faa ... Ashes from the oven of a Romanian woman contain paint and nails, indicating that she may have burned seven works stolen from a Dutch museum.