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 ...

Introduction / Cornelia Homburg and Christopher Riopelle -- Gaugin's Self-Portraits: Egos and Alter Egos / Alastair Wright -- Head of a Savage, Mask / Jean-David Jumeau-LaFond -- Seeking Oneself ...

Late in his life, in a letter to the Belgian symbolist poet, André Fontainas, Paul Gauguin described his process of coming up with a picture. “My eyes close,” he wrote, “and uncomprehendingly see the ...

Paul Gauguin, “The Ancestors of Tehamana or Tehamana Has Many Parents (Merahi metua no Tehamana) (1893), oil on canvas, 76.3 × 54.3 cm, The Art Institute of ...

Perhaps the best way to celebrate Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's centennial is to spend several hours with two new juggernaut exhibitions."Gauguin in the World" and "Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs ...

To confront Paul Gauguin in the year 2024 isn't just to gaze upon the work of a pioneering, highly versatile Post-Impressionist artist. It also means looking at a phrase and idea that have gained a ...

THE GAUGUIN ATLAS By Nienke Denekamp Translated by Laura Watkinson SAVAGE TALES The Writings of Paul Gauguin By Linda Goddard GAUGUIN Portraits Edited by Cornelia Homburg and Christopher Riopelle ...

Paul Gauguin's decorative works, sculpture, wood carvings, and graphic artworks highlight his stimulating color harmonies and rich compositions, even as some of the subject matter sits uncomfortably ...

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 ...

A little-known canvas by post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin that has not left the United States since the 1940s will be put up for sale this month at the virtual Fine Arts Paris fair. The Barron's news ...