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

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

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.

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.

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.

The life of Paul Gauguin is the stuff of legend. Or several legends. There’s the Romantic visionary invoked by his friend August Strindberg—“a child taking his toys to pieces to make new ...

Through half a century Paul Gauguin has become increasingly famous as a painter of genius who invented a unique style. In that same period Emile Bernard has languished in the shadow as a second ...

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.

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.

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.