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 ...

Aside from what we learn through his own paintings and writings, little is known about Paul Gauguin’s time in Tahiti, clouding the artist’s exploits in the South Pacific in a self-eulogized mystery.

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Italian retiree who had the good fortune to unwittingly purchase a stolen Paul Gauguin masterpiece has been awarded ownership of the painting, reports the Telegraph. The paintings were stolen by ...

The French artist Paul Gauguin’s paintings inspired by Polynesia are renowned and influential for their brilliant color, exotic locales and air of mystery. Yet Gauguin was in his 40s before he left ...