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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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    60.  A+

    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
    • Guillaumin
    • Hartrick
    • Hotel Drouot
    • Maison-Musée du Pouldu
    • Monet
    • Musée de Pont-Aven
    • Pissarro
    • Sacha Guitry
    • Salon
    • Tanguy
    • Vincent van Gogh
    • Vollard
    • wildenstein plattner institute
    • Zola
    • #museumsarenotneutral
    • Achille Granchi-Taylor
    • Allard
    • Arles
    • Boussod
    • Breton Girl Spinning
    • Butterworth
    • Calvaire Breton/Green Christ
    • ceramics
    • Cezanne
    • Charles Filiger
    • Clohars-Carnoët
    • Clovis Gauguin
    • Colarossi
    • commissaires-priseurs
    • Courtauld
    • de Maupassant
    • Degas
    • Didot-Bottin
    • Durand-Ruel
    • Ecole des arts decoratifs
    • Ernest Ponthier de Chamaillard
    • Fantine
    • femme nue debout
    • Filliger
    • Gauguin family
    • Gauguin Portraits exhibition
    • George Eliot
    • Gervaise
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    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...
    41. Strong opinions about cow paintings
    Stephanie Brown

    41. Strong opinions about cow paintings

    Gustave de Maupassant, Untitled, Location unknown This watercolor by the now forgotten artist Gustave de Maupassant sold at auction in...
    27.  Transformations
    Stephanie Brown

    27. Transformations

    Respected French art dealer Joseph Allard bought two Gauguin still lifes on April 14, 1923 for just over 9,000 francs total. Allard had
    24.  The evidence of the feet
    Stephanie Brown

    24. The evidence of the feet

    On Friday December 13, 1889, Gauguin wrote a long catching-up letter to van Gogh. Van Gogh was convalescing in the asylum at Saint-Rémy...
    23.  Le roy et la royne
    Stephanie Brown

    23. Le roy et la royne

    In 1938, a man named Jean-Albert Schmit donated a scrapbook of letters, photographs, and sketches to the Louvre. The oblong album was...
    21.  Still Lifes
    Stephanie Brown

    21. Still Lifes

    Though there's a question as to whether Fruit in a Bowl was the still life Gauguin showed at the 8th Impressionist Exhibition, there's no...
    18.  Summer 1886
    Stephanie Brown

    18. Summer 1886

    Clovis Gauguin was seven years old the summer that his father discovered Brittany.
    16.  The Villa Brune
    Stephanie Brown

    16. The Villa Brune

    Two men connected by two circumstances: their addresses and paintings by Gauguin. Not just any paintings, either...
    11.  1929:  How to make a painting disappear
    Stephanie Brown

    11. 1929: How to make a painting disappear

    In June 1929, the art dealer Paul Reinhardt sailed from New York to Southampton, England, on the White Star Line’s “Majestic.” Reinhardt...
    13.  "No known provenance prior to its appearance at auction..."
    Stephanie Brown

    13. "No known provenance prior to its appearance at auction..."

    Eustache Le Sueur, The Rape of Tamar, about 1640 The Metropolitan Museum of Art This morning's New York Times features an article titled...
    Welcome:  Start Here.
    Stephanie Brown

    Welcome: Start Here.

    This blog is a mystery, a travelogue across time and place, and a memoir about life and art, museums and research.
    8.  1964:  Looking for Louis Roy
    Stephanie Brown

    8. 1964: Looking for Louis Roy

    Meanwhile, back in Stockton, I began studying the provenance for Flowers and Fruit that the Wildensteins had put together in 1964. I...
    10.  In which the Getty rearranges its storage
    Stephanie Brown

    10. In which the Getty rearranges its storage

    Last week the Parisian daily Le Figaro announced that the Getty Museum had downgraded a sculpture previously attributed to Paul Gauguin...
    7.  2016:  The Chase Begins
    Stephanie Brown

    7. 2016: The Chase Begins

    So here I was with a painting by an important post-Impressionist artist that no one in the museum world outside of Stockton, CA, had...
    6.  And speaking of reattributions...
    Stephanie Brown

    6. And speaking of reattributions...

    There's been a painting newly re-attributed to Van Gogh this week. This self-portrait that lives in the National Gallery in Oslo has...
    5.  The Provenance
    Stephanie Brown

    5. The Provenance

    On my first visit to the Haggin Museum, in January 2016, I saw Flowers and Fruit: a fairly traditional still life of a few bumpy apples...
    4.  Authenticity & Reattributions
    Stephanie Brown

    4. Authenticity & Reattributions

    Poppies got my attention because the circumstances—the regional museum, the work questioned by experts—were so similar to Flowers and...
    3.  Authenticity:  A Painting Moves Upstairs
    Stephanie Brown

    3. Authenticity: A Painting Moves Upstairs

    A disputed Van Gogh is authenticated by experts.
    2.  2016, 1923:  The Mystery
    Stephanie Brown

    2. 2016, 1923: The Mystery

    One of those still lifes travels the world today as an authentic painting by Paul Gauguin. One hangs in

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