I’m going to do something I’ve never done before in this column: I’m going to recommend a book whose author occasionally muffs it. Don’t get me wrong, “Wild Thing” — the new biography of Paul Gauguin ...

In June, 1891, Paul Gauguin arrived in Tahiti. He was forty-three. With him—according to Sue Prideaux, whose new biography of Gauguin, “Wild Thing,” is the first to appear in English in thirty ...

For much of his life, Paul Gauguin railed against the deadening effects of bourgeois domesticity. But as Sue Prideaux writes in “Wild Thing,” her terrific new biography of the artist, for about a ...

Gauguin (1848-1903) was also self-taught in music and played several instruments, but he was mostly in painting. Prideaux suggests that Gauguin had synesthesia, a crossed-wires neurological condition ...

The life of Paul Gauguin is the stuff of legend. Or several legends. There’s the Romantic visionary invoked by his friend August Strindberg—“a child taking his toys to pieces to make new ones, ...

Paul Gauguin, "Self-portrait with Halo and Snake" (1889), oil on board (image public domain via National Gallery of Art, Washington) Paul Gauguin frequently called himself a "savage from Peru." Forget ...

The authenticity of Paul Gauguin's 1903 self-portrait has long been the subject of debate. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons According to naval records, Paul Gauguin’s eyes were brown. In early self ...

Gauguin’s final “self-portrait” is a fake, according to Fabrice Fourmanoir, a French researcher who lived for many years in French Polynesia. Following his investigation, the Kunstmuseum Basel has ...

A new biography of the French painter brims with reputation-redeeming surprises about the much-maligned rascal of the South Seas. The first time Paul Gauguin was canceled, his last breath had scarcely ...

Paul Gauguin Cruises announced that its 330-guest Paul Gauguin will undergo extensive refurbishment during a seven-week drydock in Singapore. The multi-million-dollar project features sustainable ...

To confront Paul Gauguin in the year 2024 isn't just to gaze upon the work of a pioneering, highly versatile Post-Impressionist artist. It also means looking at a phrase and idea that have gained a ...

Perhaps the best way to celebrate Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's centennial is to spend several hours with two new juggernaut exhibitions."Gauguin in the World" and "Living with the Gods: Art, Beliefs ...