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 ...

For much of his life, Paul Gauguin railed against the deadening effects of bourgeois domesticity. But as Sue Prideaux writes in “Wild Thing,” her terrific new biography of the artist, for about a ...

The 332-passenger Paul Gauguin cruise ship has undergone a $7 million renovation. The refit took place during a recent 10-night crossing from Tahiti to Brisbane, Australia, and an 11-night drydock ...

Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist,” a new survey of Paul Gauguin’s oeuvre at the Art Institute, aims to disrupt the familiar association of Tahitian motifs with his work: full-bodied, brown-skinned ...

In 1890, at the age of 42, Paul Gauguin -- a merchant seaman, successful Paris stockbroker, full-time eccentric and Sunday painter -- was about to fulfill a romantic dream to go to the South Seas ...

”The Art of Paul Gauguin,” which opens Sept. 17 in the new South Building of the Art Institute of Chicago, presents more than 240 paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures and prints ...