For the past 30 years, the owner of “Les Fleurs d’Été Dans un Gobelet” thought of it as a pretty little picture. He had no idea it was a pretty little picture by a major 19th-century painter. But ...

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.

French Post-Impressionist Paul Gauguin created innovative, enduring paintings and sculptures set on Tahiti and other Pacific ...

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 ...

A pair of paintings by French artists Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard that had been missing for four decades has been recovered by Italian authorities who said that the works of art were hanging in a ...

Paul Gauguin, “Mahana no atua (Le jour de Dieu)”, 1894, oil on linen canvas, collection of the Art Institute of Chicago Take for example Gauguin’s fanciful fetid figuration from 1892, “Manao Tupapau ...

For 40 years, the framed painting hung in the kitchen of an unassuming Italian auto worker. Perhaps he thought the kitchen a fitting place for the depiction of white bowls brimming with colorful, ...

After examining the French artist Paul Gauguin’s The Little Cat with X-ray imaging, experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam are unraveling the painting’s secrets—including a hidden beetle. When ...

With her now-infamous rant, Susan Burns took Paul Gauguin's reputation to a place it has long threatened to go: "This is evil," she said, as she attacked the painting "Two Tahitian Women," before ...

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, “The Ray” (1728), oil on canvas, 114 x146 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris (all images via wga.hu unless otherwise noted) Don’t you wish that every piece of art criticism could ...