Love, Life” at Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger looks at the legacy of one of Switzerland's most radical 20th-century artists.

Why, then, does Gauguin’s last self-portrait have blue eyes, a squat nose and no signature or date? According to Fabrice Fourmanoir, an art dealer and amateur art sleuth, these aesthetic ...

The portrait of the woman “literally emerged before our eyes … piece-by-piece,” because ... changing his style as he developed his famous Blue Period way of painting,” Wright said.

He told me his father had said that he had painted the portrait of Gauguin.” In the Basel picture, Gauguin has light-blue eyes, whereas his 1868 naval record records the colour as “brun ...

Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that “no one would paint history who could do a portrait,” but as the ... Around the eyes and mouth is the faint hint of sadness of a boy fated never to ...