The Yellow House turns the tumultuous friendship between Van Gogh and Gauguin into a tricky board game. Read our review.

Overpainting of the genitals of a figure in the relief panel “Te Fare Amu”—once described as a “serious editorial suppression of Gauguin’s original concept”—is expected to be removed at the Brooklyn M ...

Ralph Norton was a visionary who planned for the museum's future as it gathered international works from the past. He and his wife opened the gallery in 1941.

When Paul Gauguin, seeking escape from the rigors of civilization, arrived in Tahiti in 1891, he fell in love with the island and its people. One Tahitian in particular intrigued Gauguin: a ...

Vincent van Gogh on WikimediaVincent van Gogh’s story often feels like a myth painted in bold colors—an artist so consumed by passion that it spilled over into madness. The image of him bandaged and ...

Paul Gauguin (b. 1848). Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?, 1897-1898. At the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Column by Sebastian Smee “At every single moment of one’s life,” wrote ...

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In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic conventionalism. On his journey of discovery, he faces ...

For much of his life, Paul Gauguin railed against the deadening effects of bourgeois domesticity. But as Sue Prideaux writes in “Wild Thing,” her terrific new biography of the artist, for about a ...

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 ...