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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Raiatea’s tempo carries a deeper resonance. Revered as the cultural heart of French Polynesia, Marae Taputapuatea —a UNESCO ...

The French artist Paul Gauguin’s paintings inspired by Polynesia are renowned and influential for their brilliant color, exotic locales and air of mystery. Yet Gauguin was in his 40s before he left ...

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 ...

In 1890, at the age of 42, Paul Gauguin -- a merchant seaman, successful Paris stockbroker, full-time eccentric and Sunday painter -- was about to fulfill a romantic dream to go to the South Seas and ...

Every year, it seems, there’s another movie about Vincent van Gogh. But what about his post-Impressionist pal Paul Gauguin? He might be the less-celebrated artist, but Gauguin’s story has everything — ...