For the past 30 years, the owner of “Les Fleurs d’Été Dans un Gobelet” thought of it as a pretty little picture. He had no idea it was a pretty little picture by a major 19th-century painter. But ...

Paul Gauguin, “Mahana no atua (Le jour de Dieu)”, 1894, oil on linen canvas, collection of the Art Institute of Chicago Take for example Gauguin’s fanciful fetid figuration from 1892, “Manao Tupapau ...

Paul Gauguin’s painting, Nature morte avec pivoines de chine et mandoline, which hung on the walls of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris for nearly 40 years before it was restituted to heirs of early ...

A painting once hailed as Paul Gauguin’s final self-portrait is now under renewed scrutiny after an amateur art sleuth raised doubts about its authenticity—sparking a fresh scientific investigation by ...

For 40 years, the framed painting hung in the kitchen of an unassuming Italian auto worker. Perhaps he thought the kitchen a fitting place for the depiction of white bowls brimming with colorful, ...

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. When ...

A long-lost work by French Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin will hit the auction block in Connecticut, after hanging on the wall of a Manhattan antiques dealer, who was completely unaware of its ...

LONDON — A Paul Gauguin painting of two Tahitian girls has been sold from a Swiss private collection for close to $300 million, one of the highest prices believed to have been paid for an artwork, ...

A pair of paintings by French artists Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard that had been missing for four decades has been recovered by Italian authorities who said that the works of art were hanging in a ...

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, “The Ray” (1728), oil on canvas, 114 x146 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris (all images via wga.hu unless otherwise noted) Don’t you wish that every piece of art criticism could ...