Paul Gauguin
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News about Paul Gauguin, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Highlights from the Archives
The Colors of Paradise As Imagined by Gauguin
When Paul Gauguin sailed from Marseille for Tahiti on April 1, 1891, he was confident of finding a terrestrial paradise with natives living in sensual harmony with nature and ancient deities. But the reality was painfully different. In the 19th century, traditional Tahitian culture had gradually been smothered by Roman Catholic and Protestant missionaries and by French colonial administrators. Dismayed, Gauguin devoted the next 12 years to recreating in paintings, sculptures and engravings this paradise lost -- in his mind, an idyllic world of naked maidens, lush landscapes and strange spirits.
October 14, 2003 artsNewsA New York Bouquet of Gauguin
Gauguin developed fast. The still-learning, largely self-taught painter of a Cézannesque still life in 1883 was, half a dozen years later, a highly individualistic artist. By then, he had claimed art as his destiny, separated from his family and begun to immerse himself in exotic environments.
June 21, 2002 artsReviewIrritation as Inspiration
The basic story is familiar by now from Hollywood movies and old paperback novels. Van Gogh and Gauguin met in Paris in 1887. Both had dreamy plans about starting a commune of artists.
October 4, 2001 artsNewsGauguin Revealed From Myth to Muse
Paul Gauguin is a magnetic artist, not least because of his well-known life story -- or at least the outlines of that story. Gauguin was dedicated to nothing less than rejecting western civilization, and he proved it by giving up his conventional bourgeois life to go to the South Seas.
February 18, 2001 nyregionNewsThe Artist as a Freewheeling Heel
Like his friend and colleague Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin has suffered the fate of the artist who achieves enormous posthumous fame in our celebrity-conscious age: even as his paintings have skyrocketed in value, his life has been mythologized, reduced to a flimsy caricature of bohemian rebellion.
March 5, 1996 artsReviewJust Where Did Gauguin Become Gauguin?
The fact is that Gauguin became Gauguin not among the sun-drenched Polynesians but earlier, among the Bretons, back in France, where natives do their fishing in the icy North Atlantic.
September 18, 1994 artsReviewA Show Equal To an Artist Larger Than Life
Who but Gauguin pioneered our century's faith in so-called primitive art as an energizing and liberating force? Who but he set color free, once and for all, from the drudgery of description? Who but he pioneered the notion of the line whose every direction has a different emotional significance?
May 8, 1988 artsNews
Two Stolen Paintings Are Found in Italy
The Italian police recovered two paintings, including a still life by Gauguin worth millions of dollars, that had been missing since 1970.
April 3, 2014, Thursday
The Man, Not the Myth
“Gauguin: Metamorphoses,” at MoMA, is a show that radically reshapes our understanding of that 19th-century painter, but more through prints and objects than through paintings.
March 14, 2014, Friday
Amsterdam Celebrates ‘Prophets’ of Post-Impressionism
“Gauguin, Bonnard, Denis: A Russian Taste for French Art,” an exhibition at the Hermitage Amsterdam, explores the work and legacy of Les Nabis, who heralded a new era in artistic life.
October 4, 2013, Friday
A Trail of Masterpieces and a Web of Lies, Leading to Anguish
Investigators are still struggling to penetrate the fog of claims and counterclaims about what happened to seven paintings that were stolen by a Romanian criminal gang from a Dutch museum.
July 27, 2013, Saturday
Romanian’s Tale Has Art World Fearing the Worst
Ashes from the oven of a Romanian woman contain paint and nails, indicating that she may have burned seven works stolen from a Dutch museum. Her son has been arrested in the theft.
July 19, 2013, Friday
$616 Million Poorer, Hedge Fund Owner Still Buys Art
Less than two weeks after SAC Capital Advisors, the hedge fund owned by the billionaire trader Steven A. Cohen, agreed to pay the government $616 million to settle accusations of insider trading, Mr. Cohen has decided to buy a little something for...
March 27, 2013, Wednesday
A Picasso and a Gauguin Are Among 7 Works Stolen From a Dutch Museum
Art thieves made off overnight with seven paintings, including a Picasso, a Matisse, a Gauguin and two Monets, from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam.
October 17, 2012, Wednesday
Lars von Trier Seeks Film Submissions for User-Generated Project
Five-minute films will be assembled into a larger work by Jenle Hallund, a Danish director who has worked with Mr. von Trier.
August 13, 2012, Monday
Joining the Group Tour Through Eden
Despite its title, “Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia,” now at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, features only 10 works by the those artists in a survey of 60 paintings.
July 2, 2012, Monday
Rage to Buy, Driven by Munch
"The Scream" goes for a record $119.9 million at Sotheby's.
May 3, 2012, Thursday
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