For much of his life, Paul Gauguin railed against the deadening effects of bourgeois domesticity. But as Sue Prideaux writes ...

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.

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.

Paul Gauguin dreamed of an unspoiled tropical paradise. The 19th-century post-impressionist fled Paris to find it — and left his bourgeoisie life and family behind. The reality of French ...

A colorful painting of two Tahitian women by Paul Gauguin has reportedly been sold by a Swiss family foundation to a group of state museums in Qatar for nearly $300 million, a record sum for a ...

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.

The author analyzes Paul Gauguin’s breakthrough masterpiece, the heart of a “Gauguin Tahiti” show at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.

Paul Gauguin held a paint brush for the first time probably at age 23, in 1871. He was then working successfully in a stock brokerage firm in Paris. There was nothing unusual about Gauguin at the ...

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 ...

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.