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 ...

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 ...

Part artist’s manifesto, part memoir, and part catty burn-book, Paul Gauguin’s Avant et après resurfaced several years ago after having been missing for a century. In the Courtauld Institute’s ...

It’s hard to know what to make of Paul Gauguin. Postimpressionism is an umbrella term for European painters such as Gauguin who moved beyond the plein-air (“outdoor” ) breakthroughs of Degas, Renoir ...