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    61. Where do we come from? Where are we going?

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    61. Where do we come from? Where are we going?

    60. A+

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    59. In the dining room

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    59.  In the dining room

    58. Around the buvette

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    58. Around the buvette

    57. Signatures and attributions

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    57. Signatures and attributions
    • Paul Gauguin
    • Le Pouldu
    • Marie Henry
    • Emile Bernard
    • Gauguin
    • Louis Roy
    • Pont-Aven
    • Paris
    • Cormon
    • Gloanec
    • Theo van Gogh
    • Vincent Van Gogh
    • Archives de Paris
    • Charles Laval
    • Haggin Museum
    • Louis Anquetin
    • Meijer de Haan
    • Schuffenecker
    • Theo Van Gogh
    • Van Gogh Museum
    • WPI
    • Flowers and Fruit
    • Goupil and Company
    • Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
    • Montmartre
    • Archives nationales
    • Ecole des Beaux-Arts
    • Eila Haggin
    • Fake or Fortune
    • Felix Feneon
    • Finistère
    • Gallica
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    • Hotel Drouot
    • Maison-Musée du Pouldu
    • Monet
    • Musée de Pont-Aven
    • Pissarro
    • Sacha Guitry
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    • Tanguy
    • Vincent van Gogh
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    • wildenstein plattner institute
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    • Breton Girl Spinning
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    • ceramics
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    • Charles Filiger
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    • Clovis Gauguin
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    • commissaires-priseurs
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    • Ernest Ponthier de Chamaillard
    • Fantine
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    61. Where do we come from? Where are we going?
    Stephanie Brown

    61. Where do we come from? Where are we going?

    Paul Gauguin, Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? detail, 1897-98, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. On a December...
    60.  A+
    Stephanie Brown

    60. A+

    Caill, Antony, La Question des vacances scolaires, 1891. The French school calendar includes four two-week vacations. There’s the...
    59.  In the dining room
    Stephanie Brown

    59. In the dining room

    At Marie Henry’s inn, the painters were not content with borrowing pots and pans for their still lifes: as the days grew shorter, Gauguin...
    58. Around the buvette
    Stephanie Brown

    58. Around the buvette

    Theo van Gogh to his brother Vincent, Paris, February 9, 1890: De Haan sent me a painting to dispatch to his brother. One can see that...
    57. Signatures and attributions
    Stephanie Brown

    57. Signatures and attributions

    To greet the New Year we have a visual game to play that takes us from the typeface of Twitter to the painterly loops of Paul Gauguin....
    56. Looking closely
    Stephanie Brown

    56. Looking closely

    Paul Gauguin, Café at Arles, 1888, oil on canvas, Pushkin Museum, Moscow In the Morozov Collection exhibition at the Fondation Louis...
    55.  Décalage
    Stephanie Brown

    55. Décalage

    The French verb décaler means to move around in time and space. If you're posing for a photo and are out of frame, you décale yourself...
    54.  Meijer de Haan
    Stephanie Brown

    54. Meijer de Haan

    Nothing that we know of Meijer de Haan’s life before 1888 suggests that he would book into an auberge run by a single mother on the...
    53.  Two men walk into a bar
    Stephanie Brown

    53. Two men walk into a bar

    A friend opened a bakery-café about 10 years ago in my hometown. She leased a downtown store front, bought a second hand professional...
    52. Léa
    Stephanie Brown

    52. Léa

    We do know one thing that Marie Henry did while the Buvette de la Plage was under construction: she got pregnant. In May or June 1888,...
    51. On the beach road
    Stephanie Brown

    51. On the beach road

    A ferry crossing the Laita River at Le Pouldu, early 1900s, Archives Finistère The chemin des Grands Sables still runs along the coast;...
    50. Scale
    Stephanie Brown

    50. Scale

    One evening in early spring when we were living in Châteauneuf de Grasse, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France, my husband and I...
    49. In Le Pouldu
    Stephanie Brown

    49. In Le Pouldu

    Le Pouldu was where the roads came to an end. The Laita river bounded it on one side; the ocean on another. It was known for its sand...
    48. What the archives tell us
    Stephanie Brown

    48. What the archives tell us

    Marie Henry was born in the provincial town of Moëlan, in the region of Pont-Aven, the administrative district of Quimperlé, in the...
    47.  La rentrée
    Stephanie Brown

    47. La rentrée

    I check the website of the Musée de Pont-Aven every month or so, hoping that a miracle will have transpired and their archives will...
    46.  Les vacances
    Stephanie Brown

    46. Les vacances

    In the middle of July, in France, cities begin to empty. First a trickle, then a stream; by the middle of August, all but the tourists...
    45. En route
    Stephanie Brown

    45. En route

    Vincent van Gogh, Le Train bleu, 1888, Musée Rodin Two men are on an overnight train to Paris at Christmas. They've both had a traumatic...
    44.  Missing years
    Stephanie Brown

    44. Missing years

    Longtime readers may recall that the Gauguin catalogue raisonné for the years 1888-1903 was promised for the end of December 2020. Our...
    43.  Summer afternoons
    Stephanie Brown

    43. Summer afternoons

    There's a story that Zola used to walk the streets of Paris copying shop proprietors' names into his cahier. When your novels had as many...
    42.  Who tells your story
    Stephanie Brown

    42. Who tells your story

    We'll let Gauguin get on with it in Pont Aven and shift our attention today to a young woman in Amsterdam who, while Gauguin was making...
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