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, “The Ancestors of Tehamana or Tehamana Has Many Parents (Merahi metua no Tehamana) (1893), oil on canvas, 76.3 × 54.3 cm, The Art Institute of ...

Late in his life, in a letter to the Belgian symbolist poet, André Fontainas, Paul Gauguin described his process of coming up with a picture. “My eyes close,” he wrote, “and uncomprehendingly see the ...

Paul Gauguin's Tahitian mistress Tehamana modeled for many of his South Seas works, including the lush Te Nave Nave Fenua (The Delightful Land), 1892. Ohara Museum of Art Paul Gauguin did not lack for ...

When Paul Gauguin, seeking escape from the rigors of civilization, arrived in Tahiti in 1891, he fell in love with the island and its people. One Tahitian in particular intrigued Gauguin: a ...

35.5 x 34 cm. (14 x 13.4 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

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 ...

After Gauguin returned to Paris from Arles, he created one of his most bizarre carvings, Self-Portrait Vase in the Form of a Severed Head. Perhaps an allusion to John the Baptist, this stoneware head ...