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 scarcely ...

Paul Gauguin, "Self-portrait with Halo and Snake" (1889), oil on board (image public domain via National Gallery of Art, Washington) Paul Gauguin frequently called himself a "savage from Peru." Forget ...

It’s hard to know what to make of Paul Gauguin. Postimpressionism is an umbrella term for European painters such as Gauguin who moved beyond the plein-air (“outdoor”) breakthroughs of Degas, Renoir ...

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 ...

Gauguin (1848-1903) was also self-taught in music and played several instruments, but he was mostly in painting. Prideaux suggests that Gauguin had synesthesia, a crossed-wires neurological condition ...

SYDNEY — The latest project for Keifer Sutherland and Nastassaja Kinski — the Paul Gauguin biopic “Paradise Found” — is scheduled to lense through the July Screen Actors Guild strike period. Without a ...