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NEWS ABOUT: Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin stories: 4 news summaries
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 Gauguin's Echoes 
 Haunt Pacific Island 

Serene Polynesian land draws modern Gauguins, artist's fans

Jun 11, 09 1:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tucked into French Polynesia is Hiva Oa, the Marquesan island that French painter Paul Gauguin made his home 100 years ago. Remnants of Gauguin litter the remote settlement of 2,000 people, as do heaps of skulls left from its violent past. But today, Hiva Oa serves as a serene... More »

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entertainment • travel • art • Polynesia • Paul Gauguin • Jay-ZTV • Hiva Oa • Marquesas

 It Was 
 Gauguin 
 Who Cut Off 
 van Gogh's Ear 

Historians say Dutch painter loss his ear in a fight

May 5, 09 8:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vincent van Gogh's fame derives not only from his paintings, but from the legendary story that he sliced off his own ear and presented it to a prostitute. But two art historians now say that the Dutch painter didn't mutilate himself. After a decade of research, they argue that Paul... More »

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art • violence • history • Vincent Van Gogh • fencing • Paul Gauguin

 Getty Lands a Morbid Gauguin 

LA museum buys painting of decapitation scene after 8-year search

Mar 12, 08 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired an 1892 work by Paul Gauguin the Los Angeles institution's curator calls "the most famous painting by Gauguin that no one has seen," the Los Angeles Times reports. Arii Matamoe (The Royal End)—bought from a Swiss collector for an undisclosed... More »

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art market • art • Los Angeles • J. Paul Getty Museum • Paul Gauguin • Tahiti • Arii Matamoe • The Royal End

Gauguin Sculpture a Fake

'The Faun' outed as impostor after decade in Chicago art museum

Dec 12, 07 12:03 PM CST
(Newser) - After a decade on display at the Art Institute of Chicago, a ceramic figure allegedly sculpted by Paul Gauguin was revealed yesterday to be a fake. The museum discovered 'The Faun,' a half-man, half-goat figure, to be the work not of the 19th century French artist, but of a... More »

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art museum • art market • Chicago • art • Britain • art auction • Paul Gauguin • Art Institute of Chicago • forgeries • Shaun Greenhalgh • Olive Greenhalgh • George Greenhalgh • forgery

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