LondonThe boldly inventive portraits of the French artist Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) span the length of his career and evince his audacious, brilliant ambition. In likenesses of family, friends, provincial and Polynesian subjects, Gauguin captured his sitters’ characters and disparate contexts—but at times he defied the conventions of portraiture to provide a glimpse of far more. And as beautifully explored in “Gauguin Portraits,” a tightly focused show of about 50 works in an array of often- unorthodox media, the artist...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 19, 2019 10:52 UTC