Gauguin Gallery News

February 2015
New Details of Gauguin's Printmaking Process Unveiled
A team of scientists and art conservators have discovered new details in how Gauguin formed, layered and re-used imagery to make some of his graphic works.
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Gauguin Painting Sells for $300 Million
Gauguin's 1892 painting, Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?), was sold by Rudolf Staechelin to a Qatari buyer for a reported $300 Million.
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April 2014
Stolen Gauguin Painting Discovered
Over 40 years ago, paintings were stolen from a home in London and they have now been discovered. Purchased at a lost-property auction in 1975, they hung on a factory worker's kitchen wall for nearly 40 years.
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February 2014

Gauguin Drawing Finds a New Home
The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC recently acquired an early drawing by Gauguin titled, Seated Nude Seen from Above.
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February 2013

Gauguin, an NFL Player and a Ponzi Scheme
Former NFL player, Russell Allen Erxleben has been arrested after allegedly creating an elaborate Ponzi scheme which involved Gauguin’s The Sorcerer of Hiva Oa.
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October 2012

Gauguin Painting Stolen
Thieves made away with Gauguin’s 1898, Girl in Front of Open Window, when they robbed the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam.
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August 2012

Project Reinterprets Work by Gauguin
Danish director Lars von Trier, is creating a user-generated project, Gesamt, which invites entrants to reinterpret Gauguin’s Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
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April 2011

Gauguin Painting Attacked
A woman has been accused of pounding on a painting by Paul Gauguin and trying to rip it from the wall of the National Gallery of Art. Apparently the woman believed the artist was evil.
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January 2011

Gauguin’s Tribute to Van Gogh Expected to Take a High Price
The 1901 study of sunflowers is expected to sell for some $169 million in Christie’s of London’s auction next month.
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New store!

We now have a store that sells art prints, including Gauguin prints. View our selection of Gauguin prints here. Your money goes towards the upkeep of and additions to this website.