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.

Paul Gauguin exhibits at Tate Modern from September 30th, in Gauguin, Maker of Myth, a significant gathering of images, many rarely seen. The exhibition sheds light on a neglected aspect of Gaugin ...

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 ...

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.

“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.

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.

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.