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.

The walls of the yellow house were soon covered with paintings inspired by Vincent’s Arles experience including the iconic sunflowers. Paul Gauguin was something of a celebrity in the modern art world ...

The old quarrel between critics and artists (especially painters) plays out with exuberance in two pamphlet-like essays now available from David Zwirner Books. Adding to their charm, both works were ...

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 Cézanne (left) hangs with the Museum of Fine Arts' Gauguin as part of the museum's "Visting Masterpieces" series. (Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts) In retrospect, the two major late paintings by ...

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 ...

The fort of Fuerte Bulnes in Chile, circa 1955. Three Lions/Getty Images Bones of Paul Gauguin’s father found in Chile. The painter’s father died en route to Lima in 1849, and was buried at the ...