Recent years have seen increasing attention on Gauguin's attitudes to the young women who feature in the paintings of this period. An exhibition of the painter currently at the National Gallery in ...

New York art advisor Todd Levin, who had heard rumors of the Gauguin sale, told the NYT that “The price quoted to me at that time was in the high 200 millions, close to 300 million.” ...

His paintings’ Edenic world of sturdy ... a naked male back framed by two women, minimally draped. Similarly, Gauguin’s account, in his writings, of Tahitian myths and practices he claimed ...