Editing Paul Gauguin (section)

== Legacy ==
[[File:Paul Gauguin, Nafea Faa Ipoipo? 1892, oil on canvas, 101 x 77 cm.jpg|thumb|Paul Gauguin, ''[[When Will You Marry?|Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?)]]'', 1892, sold for a record US$210&nbsp;million in 2014.]]
The vogue for Gauguin's work started soon after his death. Many of his later paintings were acquired by the Russian collector [[Sergei Shchukin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.morozov-shchukin.com/html/Agau.html|title=Shchukin Gauguin|publisher=Morozov-shchukin.com|access-date=12 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909011518/http://www.morozov-shchukin.com/html/Agau.html|archive-date=9 September 2013|url-status=usurped}}</ref> A substantial part of his collection is displayed in the [[Pushkin Museum]] and the [[Hermitage Museum|Hermitage]]. Gauguin paintings are rarely offered for sale, their prices reaching tens of millions of US dollars in the saleroom when they are offered. His 1892 ''[[When Will You Marry?|Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?)]]'' became [[List of most expensive paintings|the world's third-most expensive artwork]] when its owner, the family of [[Rudolf Staechelin]], sold it privately for US$210&nbsp;million in September 2014. The buyer is believed to be the [[Qatar Museums Authority|Qatar Museums]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/arts/design/gauguin-painting-is-said-to-fetch-nearly-300-million.html|title=Gauguin Painting Is Said to Fetch $300 Million|first1=Scott|last1=Reyburn|first2=Doreen|last2=Carvajal|work=The New York Times |date=5 February 2015|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>

* Gauguin is a central and charismatic character in R.w. Meek’s award winning novels, The Dream Collector, Book I “Sabrine & Sigmund Freud”<ref>{{Cite book |last=Meek |first=R.w. |title=The Dream Collector, Book I Sabrine & Sigmund Freud |date=2023 |publisher=Historium Press |isbn=978-1-962465-13-7 |location=New York |publication-date=2023}}</ref> and Book II “Sabrine & Vincent van Gogh.”<ref>{{Cite book |last=Meek |first=R.w. |title=The Dream Collector, Book II Sabrine & Vincent van Gogh |date=2024 |publisher=Historium Press |isbn=978-1-962465-34-2 |location=New York, NY}}</ref>

*Gauguin's life inspired [[W. Somerset Maugham]]'s novel ''[[The Moon and Sixpence]]''. [[Mario Vargas Llosa]] based his 2003 novel ''[[The Way to Paradise]]'' on Gauguin's life, and that of his grandmother [[Flora Tristan]].
*Actor [[Anthony Quinn]] portrayed Gauguin in the 1956 Van Gogh biopic ''[[Lust for Life (1956 film)|Lust for Life]]'' and  won the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor]] for his performance.  [[Oscar Isaac]] played Gauguin in the later Van Gogh biopic ''[[At Eternity's Gate (film)|At Eternity's Gate]]''. [[Wladimir Yordanoff]] played Gauguin in the 1990 film [[Vincent & Theo]].
*Gauguin is also the subject of at least two operas: [[Federico Elizalde]]'s ''Paul Gauguin'' (1943); and ''Gauguin (a synthetic life)'' by Michael Smetanin and [[Alison Croggon]]. [[Déodat de Séverac]] wrote his ''Elegy'' for piano in memory of Gauguin.
*The Danish-produced film ''[[The Wolf at the Door|Oviri]]'' (1986) is a biographical film. With Gauguin portrayed by [[Donald Sutherland]], the film follows the painter from the time he returns to Paris in 1893 after a two-year stay in Tahiti and must confront his wife, his children and his former lover. It ends when he returns to Tahiti two years later.  Coincidentally, Sutherland's son [[Kiefer Sutherland]] portrayed a younger Gauguin in a less focused and much less historically accurate film ''[[Paradise Found (film)|Paradise Found]]'' (2003).  Several other independent films have explored different aspects of Gauguin's eventful life.
*His biography is depicted in the 2017 French film {{ill|Gauguin: Voyage de Tahiti|fr|Gauguin : Voyage de Tahiti|italic=yes}} portraying his life during his years in Tahiti.

The Japanese styled Gauguin Museum, opposite the Botanical Gardens of Papeari in Papeari, Tahiti, contains some exhibits, documents, photographs, reproductions and original sketches and block prints of Gauguin and Tahitians. In 2003, the [[Paul Gauguin Cultural Center]] opened in Atuona in the [[Marquesas Islands]].

In 2014 the painting ''[[Fruits on a Table]]''  (1889), with an estimated value of between €10m and €30m (£8.3m to £24.8m), which had been stolen in London in 1970, was discovered in Italy. The painting, together with a work by [[Pierre Bonnard]], had been bought by a Fiat employee in 1975, at a railway lost property sale, for 45,000 lira (about £32).<ref>{{cite news|first=Lizzy|last= Davies |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/apr/02/stolen-paintings-italian-works-wall-40-years-gaugain-bonnard |title=Stolen paintings hung on Italian factory worker's wall for almost 40 years &#124; Art and design |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=2 April 2014 |access-date=3 April 2014}}</ref>

=== Gauguin and colonialism ===
In the 21st century, Gauguin's [[Primitivism|Primitivist]] representations of Tahiti and its people have been a subject of controversy and renewed scholarly attention.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Maleuvre |first=Didier |date=2018 |title=The Trial of Paul Gauguin |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/90021833 |journal=Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=197–213 |issn=0027-1276 |jstor=90021833}}</ref> His depictions of Polynesian women have been described as "racial fantasy forged from a position of [[Patriarchy|patriarchal]], colonialist power" with some critics pointing to Gauguin's [[hebephilia|sexual relationships with teenage Tahitian girls]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mendelsohn |first=Meredith |date=2017-08-03 |title=Why Is the Art World Divided over Gauguin's Legacy? |url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-art-divided-gauguins-legacy |access-date=2023-03-19 |website=Artsy |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Nayeri |first=Farah |date=2019-11-18 |title=Is It Time Gauguin Got Canceled? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/arts/design/gauguin-national-gallery-london.html |access-date=2023-03-19 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

On the other hand, a 2025 biography ''Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin'' by [[Sue Prideaux]] describes him and his works in a different light: he believed in gender and culture equity, he followed local Polynesian customs, his Tahitian lovers were older than previously thought, and his Danish wife didn't disapprove of his works. He was celebrated as a defender of the locals against the French colonialist oppression. Based on new forensic evidence and accounts of his doctors, he hadn't contracted syphilis so couldn't spread it either. Arguably, this is the light in which his works should be interpreted as well.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Prideaux |first=Sue |date=2025-03-17 |title=‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/mar/17/polynesians-astonishing-revelations-paul-gauguin-syphilis-underage |access-date=2025-03-17 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>