Skip to content viewer section. Paul Gauguin, Noa Noa: Voyage à Tahiti (Stockholm: Jan Förlag, 1947). Gauguin, dated 1893, is held in Los Angeles in the special collections of the Getty Research ...

A rare canvas by French artist Paul Gauguin from his time in Tahiti fetched €9.5 million (US$10.5 million) in Paris on Tuesday, nearly twice its estimated value, the auction house said.

Why it matters: The exhibition showcases Gauguin's life and work from the 1870s to his final years, with half of the exhibit devoted to his time in Tahiti and the Marquesas Islands. It also ...