A new book is an art detective mystery, a behind-the-scenes look at provenance research, a psychological analysis, and a critical commentary on the art market. How did a painting that was once coveted ...
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam got an unexpected surprise when it offered to do technical analysis on a famous Paul Gauguin painting known as The Little Cat (1888), which is currently on loan from a ...
Paul Gauguin is a French Post-Impressionist artist who was unappreciated until after his death. Gauguin now is recognized for his experimental and innovative presentation of formal elements and ...
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 ...
LONDON — A Paul Gauguin painting of two Tahitian girls has been sold from a Swiss private collection for close to $300 million, one of the highest prices believed to have been paid for an artwork, ...
A Cézanne (left) hangs with the Museum of Fine Arts' Gauguin as part of the museum's "Visting Masterpieces" series. (Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts) In retrospect, the two major late paintings by ...