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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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18. Summer 1886
Clovis Gauguin was seven years old the summer that his father discovered Brittany.
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16. The Villa Brune
Two men connected by two circumstances: their addresses and paintings by Gauguin. Not just any paintings, either...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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4. Authenticity & Reattributions
Poppies got my attention because the circumstances—the regional museum, the work questioned by experts—were so similar to Flowers and...
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3. Authenticity: A Painting Moves Upstairs
A disputed Van Gogh is authenticated by experts.
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2. 2016, 1923: The Mystery
One of those still lifes travels the world today as an authentic painting by Paul Gauguin. One hangs in