A rare canvas by French artist Paul Gauguin from his time in Tahiti fetched €9.5 million (US$10.5 million) in Paris on Tuesday, nearly twice its estimated value, the auction house said.

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.” ...

After examining the French artist Paul Gauguin’s The Little Cat with X-ray imaging, experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam are unraveling the painting’s secrets—including a hidden beetle.