Say “Paul Gauguin” and we are transported to a world of sturdy, golden-skinned women, patterned cloth, glowing colors, and tropical foliage. Once we are established in this South Seas Arcadia, random ...

Paul Gauguin, “Mahana no atua (Le jour de Dieu)”, 1894, oil on linen canvas, collection of the Art Institute of Chicago Take for example Gauguin’s fanciful fetid figuration from 1892, “Manao Tupapau ...

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 ...

It goes like this. Gauguin was born in 1848, became a Parisian stockbroker, took up painting in his 20s, ditched his job, abandoned his wife and young children, and voyaged to the Pacific Islands in ...

The Evening Associates Board of the Art Institute of Chicago hosted its seventh annual Night Heist, this year a Tahitian-themed fundraiser to celebrate the museum’s newest exhibition, “Gauguin: Artist ...

Still, only two female nudes are included in this exhibition, though the absence of clothes can hardly have been grounds for exclusion. Instead we have less familiar, but no less sensual works, the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Gauguin Three Tahitians (Trois tahitiens) 1899 oil on canvas 73 × 94 cm National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh. Presented ...

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 mystery.

It’s a return of sorts, as Gauguin famously moved to French Polynesia in 1891 where he created some of his most renowned works. Notably, the exhibition Gauguin’s World: Tōa Iho, Tōna Ao is curated by ...

Hot on the heels of the immensely successful “Van Gogh In Sri Lanka” the Fareed Uduman Art Forum is now presenting another Stellar Exhibition – “Gauguin In Sri Lanka” at Sky Gallery from 18 th to 27 ...