The life of Paul Gauguin, dimly remembered from a bad art-appreciation class, used to go this way: Well-off stockbroker abandons wife and children to devote himself to art; decries the increasing ...

In 1891, artist Paul Gauguin arrived in the French colony of Tahiti looking for an exotic paradise and convinced that he could make money painting local clients. One first attempt was the Portrait of ...

Unlike Picasso and Cézanne, Gauguin is not known for his portraiture – all those young Polynesian girls are empty vessels, awaiting the thoughts and fantasies of the artist, the viewer, men, anyone ...

“Gauguin used portraiture to open avenues, to express his own thoughts,” says Cornelia Homburg, the co-curator of the National Gallery of Canada’s forthcoming exhibition Gauguin: Portraits (24 May-8 ...

Following the 2018 release of the poorly received biopic “Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti,” starring Vincent Cassel, French Postimpressionist Paul Gauguin now gets the nonfiction treatment with “Gauguin ...

Gauguin gave the 'Cleopatra Pot' to Vincent’s brother Theo, just after the disastrous end of the two artists’ collaboration ...

In “Wild Thing,” Sue Prideaux uses recent research to closely examine Gauguin’s complex relationship with French colonialism ...

It goes like this. Gauguin was born in 1848, became a Parisian stockbroker, took up painting in his 20s, ditched his job, abandoned his wife and young children, and voyaged to the Pacific Islands in ...

The Evening Associates Board of the Art Institute of Chicago hosted its seventh annual Night Heist, this year a Tahitian-themed fundraiser to celebrate the museum’s newest exhibition, “Gauguin: Artist ...

"This was a well-planned theft and we have launched a major inquiry," Greater Manchester Police said in a statement. Police named the works as Van Gogh's "The Fortifications of Paris with Houses," ...

Hot on the heels of the immensely successful “Van Gogh In Sri Lanka” the Fareed Uduman Art Forum is now presenting another Stellar Exhibition – “Gauguin In Sri Lanka” at Sky Gallery from 18 th to 27 ...