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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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    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....
    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...
    37.  Frames
    Stephanie Brown

    37. Frames

    On the first day in nearly a month in which I have been able to carve out space for Flowers and Fruit, the Gallica BnF website is...
    34.  Behind the curtain
    Stephanie Brown

    34. Behind the curtain

    I learned something last Thursday that merits an interruption. Vincent will continue to be sad and desperate, and Gauguin will continue...
    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...
    22.  To the manor born
    Stephanie Brown

    22. To the manor born

    If you tap at the archives for long enough, a few cracks start to show. Follow the cracks and you can begin to pick off the layers...
    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...
    19.  Not a nice man
    Stephanie Brown

    19. Not a nice man

    When I was growing up in North Carolina, the worst thing that my grandmother could say about someone was that he was not a nice man. My...
    14.  1889:  The Volpini Exhibition
    Stephanie Brown

    14. 1889: The Volpini Exhibition

    Connecting Louis Roy to Paul Gauguin was one of my first tasks. Roy was difficult to track down, but one connection was easy to find: ...
    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...
    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.
    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
    1.  In which we discuss the digital world
    Stephanie Brown

    1. In which we discuss the digital world

    If I were not able to access archives online as much as I can...

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