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The American artist on his interventions at the Fitzwilliam Museum, a chat about a new publication exploring Gauguin’s complex character, and the details on a new London sculpture paying tribute to trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming communities

The museum, which is hosting a major survey of the post-Impressionist artist's work, paid $6.5m for 'The blue roof' or 'Farm at Le Pouldu'

Exhibition curated by a former Louvre director includes a deep-dive into the artist’s time in French Polynesia, where he painted many of his most famous works

The playful creature—painted while the artists were living in the Yellow House—has crept out of hiding after more than 100 years

Our round-up of the latest art publications

The French artist tried to rewrite history, just months before his death

Plus, the life and work of the pioneering Indigenous Australian artist Emily Kam Kngwarray, and a revealing manuscript by Paul Gauguin

The 28-page work sees the artist praising the Impressionists and discussing ‘haunting visions’

But Vincent was then shocked when Paul Gauguin’s painting arrived at the Yellow House

From Mondrian to Rothko, when it comes to hanging a painting, museums don't always get things right first (or even second) time

Jewel that gives its name to an 1892 Tahitian carving was added to the work years after the French artist’s death, researcher discovers

And why was “Vincent’s Chair” sold to London’s National Gallery in the 1920s, while “Gauguin’s Chair” was hidden away?

In a new book Farah Nayeri says that “cancel culture” is nothing new, politics and art have always been intertwined—but now it is citizens, not kings and popes, who call the shots

Catalogue raisonné rejects unusual part-painting, part-sketch, as expert says the “colonial” nature of the composition is not the artist’s style

The Los Angeles institution confirmed the work was not authentic last year

An insight into what the two paintings reveal about Vincent's life with Gauguin in the Yellow House

“Beautiful women” in Gauguin’s rediscovered manuscript are now identified as by Kunisada—Vincent’s favourite Japanese printmaker

In Avant et Après—just acquired by London's Courtauld Gallery—Gauguin details his tumultuous time with Van Gogh

The London exhibition has many highlights, but viewing this long-planned show is unlike anyone could have envisaged before the coronavirus pandemic

Original book with nearly 30 images has been acquired by London's Courtauld Gallery and will go on display next year

Plus, Tavares Strachan on Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty. Sponsored by Christie's

Former Tahitian resident Fabrice Fourmanoir helped The Art Newspaper correctly identify a fake in the Getty Museum's collection earlier this year

“Tall, dark, rather handsome”, his description of Gauguin in Breton garb

Vincent describes his artist friend as having the “instincts of a wild beast”

Plus, Canadian First Nations artist Kent Monkman on his Met paintings and the art of food at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge

Museum probably paid at least $3m for the widely exhibited sculpture of a horned devil, but the misattributed work may have been made by a Polynesian artist for the European market

New York-based Wildenstein-Plattner Institute will digitise fabled Wildenstein archive of sale catalogues, letters and experts’ notes

In Tahiti, years later, Gauguin recalled the flower which stinks of rotting flesh

The artist befriended the child of his neighbours, and had given two paintings for the boy’s nursery