Some said Paul Gauguin was a monster, and others said he was a master. Sue Prideaux implies he was both in her book Wild ...

Still, given the hand-wringing and self-righteous mudslinging that have accompanied recent Gauguin exhibitions, the time is ...

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.

It pictures Gauguin’s teenage lover, holding a fan. The artist “repeatedly entered into sexual relations with young girls, ‘marrying’ two of them and fathering children”, reads the wall ...

And how can a work of art suddenly be deemed inauthentic, after more than a century of authenticity? This is the subject of The Case of the Disappearing Gauguin: A Study of Authenticity and the ...

Those questions go to the heart of The Case of the Disappearing Gauguin, a new book by art historian Stephanie A. Brown, which occasioned the show. In her biography of the painting, Brown traces ...

He dates the work to 1916, 13 years after Gauguin’s death, and believes it was painted by Ky-Dong Nguyen Van Cam (1875-1929), a Vietnamese friend of the French artist on the Marquesan island of ...

To be published in America by W.W. Norton in May 2025; $39.99 FOR AN AMBITIOUS, clear-eyed biographer, Paul Gauguin is an ideal subject. The French artist was prodigiously talented. He was bold ...

"Gauguin in the World" and "Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs and Peoples" and are both big swings, worlds apart. MFAH is the only U.S. venue to receive the comprehensive exhibition of the artist ...

From the mountainous heights of picturesque Hiva Oa, the show looks back at the artist’s earlier life. It traces Gauguin’s friendship with Camille Pissarro, the so-called father of ...