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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.
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Why, then, does Gauguin’s last self-portrait have blue eyes, a squat nose and no signature or date? According to Fabrice Fourmanoir, an art dealer and amateur art sleuth, these aesthetic ...
A new biography of the French painter brims with reputation-redeeming surprises about the much-maligned rascal of the South Seas. The first time Paul Gauguin was canceled, his last breath had ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 is an artist ripe for cancellation Yet, as with others, controversy and talent were part of the same palette ...
Part artist’s manifesto, part memoir, and part catty burn-book, Paul Gauguin’s Avant et après resurfaced several years ago after having been missing for a century. In the Courtauld Institute’s ...
Paul Gauguin, "Femmes de Tahiti (Tahitian Women)," 1891, oil on canvas, Musée d’Orsay, Paris. On view at the Museum of Arts, Houston's "Gauguin in the World" exhibit. TMN-Grand Palais/Art ...