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

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 ...

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

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.

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 is being criticized for sex with Polynesian girls, including this one portrayed in his painting "Tehamana Has Many Parents." Corbis via Getty Images At a current Paul Gauguin exhibition at ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...