PHOTO: EAST NEWS/ADOC PHOTOS Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), peintre fran??ais jouant de l'harmonium dans l'atelier du peintre tch??coslovaque Alphonse Mucha. Vers 1890. ===== Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), french painter playing harmonium in the Alphonse Mucha studio. Ca. 1890. =====

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP POUR ILLUSTRER LE PAPIER: "LE PETIT TROU PAS CHER DE PAUL GAUGUIN EST DEVENU L'ECOLE DE PONT-AVEN" - Photo non dat??e prise en Bretagne du peintre Paul Gauguin. Quatre de ses tableaux sont rassembl??s actuellement au Mus??e de Pont-Aven dans le cadre de l'exposition "Gauguin et l'Ecole de Pont-Aven".

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/AFP PHOTO Paul Gauguin's "Self-Portrait with Palette," an oil painting done in 1894, is one of the highlights of "Gauguin in New York: The Lure of the Exotic," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the first major exhibition of works by the French artist in New York in 40 years and the first time the Met has displayed its entire collection of the artist's work. The exhibition is on display from 18 June 2002 to 20 October 2002.

French Polynesia, Gauguin's painting (two Tahitian womenon yellow background) on sarong fabric

French Polynesia, Gauguin's painting (two Tahitian women, one with a book) on sarong fabric

French Polynesia, Gauguin's painting (fourTahitian women and trees) on sarong fabric

French Polynesia, Gauguin's painting (two Tahitian women) on sarong fabric

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SYLVAIN GRANDADAM FRANCJA,BRETANIA,PONT-AVEN "MRS CHANSON" SCHUFFENECKER

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SYLVAIN GRANDADAM FRANCJA,BRETANIA,PONT-AVEN "LES FEUX DE LA SAINT-JEAN A LOCTUDY" M.DENIS

Stopover in Hiva Oa island at Atuona. In this main village of the South Islands have lived painter Paul Gauguin, dead in 1903 and singer Jacques Brel, passed away in 1978. Cruise on Aranui III, cargo and passenger vessel, delivering goods to Marquesas and Tuamotus islands from Tahiti and picking coprah, fruits and fishes on her way back. Marquesas archipelago. French Polynesia// Escale dans l'ile de Hiva Oa. Dans ce plus gros village des iles du Sud ont vecu le peintre paul gauguin mort en 1903 et le chanteur Jacques Brel mort en 1978. Croisiere de deux semaines sur le cargo mixte Aranui III, lequel approvisionne depuis Tahiti les archipels des Marquises et des tuamotus. Il rapporte du coprah, des fruits et des poissons au retour. Archipel des Marquises. Polynesie Francaise

Ken Yeh, Deputy Chairman of Christie's Asia, speaks in front of the French artist Paul Gauguin's

Sotheby's employees adjust a painting by Paul Gauguin entitled 'Deux Femmes' at the auction house's offices in London, Wednesday Feb. 1, 2006. Executed in 1902, the Tahitian painting, which is described by Sotheby's as the most important Gauguin to appear at auction in Europe in 15 years, is estimated to fetch pounds 11-14 million (US $19.5-24.9 million, euros 16.15-20.6 million) when it features in an Impressionist and Modern art sale on February 7. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

This 1899 painting by Paul Gauguin titled

PHOTO: EAST NEWS/SYLVAIN GRANDADAM painter Paul Gauguin grave in Atuona, island of Hiva-Oa..Marquesas archipelago. French Polynesia

FRANCE.PARIS.ORSAY MUSEUM.THE PAUL GAUGUIN COLLECTION

FRANCE.PARIS.ORSAY MUSEUM.THE PAUL GAUGUIN COLLECTION

FRANCE.PARIS.ORSAY MUSEUM.THE PAUL GAUGUIN COLLECTION

FRANCE.PARIS.ORSAY MUSEUM.THE PAUL GAUGUIN COLLECTION

FRANCE.PARIS.ORSAY MUSEUM.THE PAUL GAUGUIN COLLECTION

FRANCE.PARIS.ORSAY MUSEUM.THE PAUL GAUGUIN COLLECTION