The artist has lately been derided as a colonizer and a pedophile, the creep of the Post-Impressionists. A new book ...

Paul Gauguin, “Mahana no atua (Le jour de Dieu)”, 1894, oil on linen canvas, collection of the Art Institute of Chicago ...

The painting ‘Les Fleurs d’Été Dans un Gobelet’ was recently attributed to the 19th-century French master, Paul Gauguin. Photo: Bleacher and Everard Photograpy ...

In 1885, he abandoned everything - his wife, children and job -- for art. Gauguin, some say, was a self-obsessed man. "He's a deeply spiritual man without being particularly religious.

A colorful 1892 painting by artist Paul Gauguin sold for a record $300 million. WSJ's Kelly Crow discusses how such a sale will impact the art market. Photo: AP ...

Gauguin’s auction record was set during the sale of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen last year. The 1899 painting Maternité II sold for US$106 million, with fees.

Paul Gauguin painting becomes most expensive EVER - but which others made the top 10? The work of art, showing two Tahitian girls, and called Nafea Faa Ipoipo, or When Will You Marry?, has been ...

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 ...

Italian Carabinieri stand next to the two stolen paintings, Paul Gauguin's "Fruits sur une table ou nature au petit chien" (left) and Pierre Bonnard's "La femme aux deux fauteuils." Getty Images ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum announced Tuesday that it had acquired “Arii Matamoe,” an 1892 painting by Paul Gauguin that has been in a private collection in Switzerland for decades.