Art historians know there was much more to Paul Gauguin than paintings of “bare breasts and mangoes,” as Gloria Groom, the curator of a new Art Institute exhibition on the French multimedia artist, ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. 7 min to read We know what art collectors think of Paul Gauguin’s paintings of Polynesian girls and women. The royal family of ...

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 ...

A prized and rare sculpture by Paul Gauguin that was acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum for a reported $3 million to $5 million has been deemed a fake. Researchers made the change in attribution ...

Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist,” a new survey of Paul Gauguin’s oeuvre at the Art Institute, aims to disrupt the familiar association of Tahitian motifs with his work: full-bodied, brown-skinned women, ...

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 ...

The shadows of French colonialism, of 19th-century cultural appropriations, and of the artist’s unbridled carnal appetites found in his work have made the French Post-Impressionist painter Paul ...

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-rate ...