When Gauguin died in 1903, a bishop described him as “a reputed artist but an enemy of God and everything that is decent”. Some nuance has since been added to that sketch.

French painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) seated in front of one of his paintings (Getty) Your support helps us to tell the story. Read more. Support Now.

Reading Paul Gauguin’s fictionalized travelogue, Noa Noa, you’d be forgiven for thinking he’d stumbled upon an artist’s idyll when he arrived in Tahiti in 1891.“All the joys—animal and ...

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 ...

Some said Paul Gauguin was a monster, and others said he was a master. Sue Prideaux implies he was both in her book Wild Thing, A Life of Paul Gauguin.

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.

A technical analysis of the 1888 Paul Gauguin painting, The Little Cat, reveals hidden details, including a dead beetle. The artist's feline still life harbors more than one critter.

“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 ...

T he 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.

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 ...