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 ...

In Tales, Gauguin lists 40 artists he admires. Van Gogh is included at the very end of the list, although nothing more is said about him, despite the fact that Gauguin lived and worked with him for ...

Still, only two female nudes are included in this exhibition, though the absence of clothes can hardly have been grounds for exclusion. Instead we have less familiar, but no less sensual works, the ...

UPDATE, 5 October: New research suggests that the three Japanese prints in Gauguin’s manuscript may have been acquired from Van Gogh. Gauguin’s book-length manuscript Avant et Après (Before and After) ...

Much of Paul Gauguin’s life has been subject to scrutiny. Best known as a painter, he was also a sculptor, a printmaker, a stockbroker, a fan of very young girls, and—if you believe the rumors—the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gauguin was a “sex tourist”, who dumped his wife and five children in poverty in Europe and took up residence in French Polynesia, where he married three native children, the youngest 13, the others ...

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 ...

Visitors to Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery were treated to some unexpected drama over the weekend: The Washington Post reports that a woman attacked a 1899 painting by French Post-Impressionist ...

On 11 th October I appeared on a panel at the National Gallery to discuss questions of art and morality in relation to Paul Gauguin’s life and work. The gallery’s major new exhibition of Gauguin’s ...

Here’s a geeky fact about the National Gallery: there are only two paintings in its collection by that alpha male of French Post-Impressionism, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). And just one appears in its ...