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 ...

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.

According to naval records, Paul Gauguin’s eyes were brown. In early self-portraits, the French artist painted himself with a crooked nose, and he scrawled a signature and date in the corners.

“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 ...

From entering sexual relationships with young girls, to using his status as a westerner to exploit, Paul Gauguin is a controversial figure. So why do we keep making excuses, Farah Nayeri asks ...

Paul Gauguin is both well-known and underappreciated simultaneously. His work is recognizable, but his influence on 20th-century art is more important than one might think. “Gauguin in the World ...

Paul Gauguin, "Trois tahitiens (Three Tahitians)," 1899, oil on canvas, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh. On view at the Museum of Arts, Houston's "Gauguin in the World" exhibit.

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.

Two months after the stock market crash of 1929, an American Gold Rush heiress named Eila Haggin McKee purchased a Paul Gauguin still life called “Flowers and Fruit” (c. 1889) from the ...

After examining the French artist Paul Gauguin’s The Little Cat with X-ray imaging, experts at the Van Gogh Museum in ...

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.

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.