A painting once hailed as Paul Gauguin’s final self-portrait is now under renewed scrutiny after an amateur art sleuth raised doubts about its authenticity—sparking a fresh scientific investigation 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 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 ...

Paul Gauguin held a paint brush for the first time probably at age 23, in 1871. He was then working successfully in a stock brokerage firm in Paris. There was nothing unusual about Gauguin at the time ...

A new book is an art detective mystery, a behind-the-scenes look at provenance research, a psychological analysis, and a critical commentary on the art market. How did a painting that was once coveted ...

After years of legal tussles, there are sure to be fireworks at Sotheby’s next month when a group of top-flight Impressionist paintings that were restituted to the heirs of legendary dealer Ambroise ...

“Man leaves job to pursue other, more meaningful interests” is a theme that’s very of the moment, but rarely does it effect a monumental change. Not so in the 19th century. That’s when—in 1882, to be ...

Through half a century Paul Gauguin has become increasingly famous as a painter of genius who invented a unique style. In that same period Emile Bernard has languished in the shadow as a second-rate ...

In “Wild Thing,” Sue Prideaux draws on recently discovered source material, delivering an enthralling account of an artist whose life was as inventive as his art. By Jennifer Szalai How a best-selling ...

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 ...

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 ...