For much of his life, Paul Gauguin railed against the deadening effects of bourgeois domesticity. But as Sue Prideaux writes ...

Akram Ojjeh built his fortune as a middleman for French arms sales to Saudi Arabia, up until his death in 1991. The legal ...

Jenny Saville’s peers shunned painting in favour of alternative media such as photography, video and installations, the artist stuck to her guns and, unapologetically, worked on canvases as large as ...