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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....
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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: ...
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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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This blog is a mystery, a travelogue across time and place, and a memoir about life and art, museums and research.
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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
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1. In which we discuss the digital world
If I were not able to access archives online as much as I can...