The artist has lately been derided as a colonizer and a pedophile, the creep of the Post-Impressionists. A new book ...

In 1883 at age 35, Gauguin quit the business world and became a fulltime artist. His life then began to morph into an operatic tragedy—as well as for some associated with him. The most famous ...

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 ...

Paul also used the people of Tahiti as muses—photographing where Gauguin painted—and sees the country as nothing more than the exotic backdrop for his journey of self-discovery.

The life of Paul Gauguin is the stuff of legend. Or several legends. There’s the Romantic visionary invoked by his friend August Strindberg—“a child taking his toys to pieces to make new ...

Review: A spirited biography of ‘odd,’ ‘visionary’ Paul Gauguin Nonfiction: Radiant look at the “Wild Thing” illuminates the artistic bridge between the 19th century and modernism.

‘Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching)’ (1892) by Paul Gauguin. Photo: Buffalo AKG Art Museum Sue Prideaux’s gruesomely fascinating “Wild Thing” begins with four teeth in a well.