Luis Felipe Noe, Huir como Gauguin o soñar como Rosseau (ca. 1983)

Although primarily known as a painter, Gauguin was a proficient sculptor who strongly influenced modern sculpture. The versions of this statuette that he made himself document his ...

In 1899, Gauguin's mistress, Pahura, gave birth to a son, who gave the artist a new lease on life. After months of inaction due to poverty and ill health, Gauguin began to paint ag...

Though born in Paris, Paul Gauguin spent his formative years in Peru. His father having died while the family was en route, Paul and his sister Marie lived with their mother in t...

In April 1891 Gauguin left France for Tahiti, arriving in the capital, Papeete, in June only to discover that he had no hope of finding the primitive lifestyle, tribal art, and pag...

In 1887, Gauguin and Charles Laval went to Panama, and then to Martinique, searching for a warm, healthy climate and a cheap place to live a natural, "savage" life. Residing during...

Street in Rouen is one of the most ambitious — and largest —landscapes painted by Gauguin while living in this town in northeast France between January and November 1884. During t...