One of the building's best features was the Gauguin Room, a top floor restaurant that featured tapestry versions of Gauguin paintings.

During barren periods, when writing was not bringing in enough money, Monfreid relied upon mortgaging the family collection of Gauguin paintings.

It's like looking at a Gauguin painting and wondering what those women in Fiji or Tahiti were thinking.

Gauguin paintings are rarely offered for sale; their price may be as high as $39.2 million US$.

A parallel case involving a Gauguin painting, brought by the same family against the Toledo Museum of Art, was dismissed by an Ohio judge in December.

This painting appears in the background of another Gauguin painting, his Self-portrait with Hat, possibly indicating its importance to him.

Pulo" means "island" in Tagalog, and the work was inspired by a Gauguin painting called "Where Do We Come From?

If it hadn't been for you..." "I have a set of Gauguin paintings on slides.

Tapestry versions of Gauguin paintings were displayed against wood paneling.

The offerings range from a landscape by Jacob van Ruisdael to a Gauguin painting of Martinique.