*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. 7 min to read We know what art collectors think of Paul Gauguin’s paintings of Polynesian girls and women. The royal family of ...

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 was not just the paintings of Paul Gauguin that left a deep impression on Grant Robbin, creator of “Gauguin — The Musical.” Robbin recalls how his life was changed by learning the story of Gauguin, ...

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.

Art historians know there was much more to Paul Gauguin than paintings of “bare breasts and mangoes,” as Gloria Groom, the curator of a new Art Institute exhibition on the French multimedia artist, ...

Forget Tahiti’s tropical palm trees and aqua-colored water. The new Paul Gauguin show at the National Gallery of Art delivers sex, scandal and severed heads. “Gauguin: Maker of Myth” showcases about ...

He may not be best-known for his still lifes, but artist Paul Gauguin regularly submitted those types of paintings to Impressionist shows, including the official organized exhibitions in 1880, 1881, ...

Through half a century Paul Gauguin has become increasingly famous as a painter of genius who invented a unique style. In that same period Emile Bernard has languished in the shadow as a second-rate ...