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.

Paul Gauguin held a paint brush for the first time probably at age 23, in 1871. He was then working successfully in a stock brokerage firm in Paris. There was nothing unusual about Gauguin at the time ...

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 ...

With her now-infamous rant, Susan Burns took Paul Gauguin's reputation to a place it has long threatened to go: "This is evil," she said, as she attacked the painting "Two Tahitian Women," before ...

A legal dispute has revealed that a painting thought to be the world’s most expensive artwork is not the most expensive one after all. Paul Gauguin’s 1892 oil painting “Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You ...

“Man leaves job to pursue other, more meaningful interests” is a theme that’s very of the moment, but rarely does it effect a monumental change. Not so in the 19th century. That’s when—in 1882, to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

In “Wild Thing,” Sue Prideaux draws on recently discovered source material, delivering an enthralling account of an artist whose life was as inventive as his art. By Jennifer Szalai How a best-selling ...