It’s the nude that bothers Fabrice Fourmanoir. The way she’s painted is “unsightly” and “vulgar,” quite unlike the Polynesian women of his mind’s eye. Nor does he like the way she’s artificially ...

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, “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 ...

In Tales, Gauguin lists 40 artists he admires. Van Gogh is included at the very end of the list, although nothing more is said about him, despite the fact that Gauguin lived and worked with him for ...

An unfinished work in the collection of the Tate in London, long believed to be by the famous Post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin, just got a major downgrade. Tahitians, circa 1891, has been ...

A portion of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., has the look of a tropical paradise these days. A major exhibition of works by 19th century post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin includes oil ...

Paul Gauguin, "Self-portrait with Halo and Snake" (1889), oil on board (image public domain via National Gallery of Art, Washington) Paul Gauguin frequently called himself a "savage from Peru." Forget ...

A work supposedly made by Gauguin has now been called into question. Vukan Vujović / Facebook “The work was included by the Wildenstein Institute in their Gauguin catalogue raisonné in 1964 and Tate ...

Paul Gauguin’s portraits painted in Tahiti ‘expanded the parameters of portraiture’, but they were exoticised for a Western market. Now, modern artists are subverting this legacy. The backdrop to the ...

What are the cabins like on the one ship operated by Paul Gauguin Cruises? In a word, comfortable. Unveiled in 1997, the South Pacific luxury cruise specialist's 330-passenger Paul Gauguin, which it ...

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