The artist has lately been derided as a colonizer and a pedophile, the creep of the Post-Impressionists. A new book ...

Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848 but spent much of his life outside France. His father was a political journalist, his mother the daughter of Flora Tristan, a well-known French socialist and ...

The Art Institute is still renowned for its 1988 Gauguin retrospective, created in collaboration with the Musee d’Orsay and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C..

Paul Gauguin created some of the most beautiful art the world has ever known. ... Gauguin was born in 1848, became a Parisian stockbroker, took up painting in his 20s, ...

Gauguin, born in Paris in 1848 to a relatively well-off family, befriended but then quarrelled with most ofthe leading Impressionist artists before breaking with the movement.