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...

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

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...

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...

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 g...

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: th...

In June 1929, the art dealer Paul Reinhardt sailed from New York to Southampton, England, on the White Star Line’s “Majestic.” Reinhardt w...

This blog is a mystery, a travelogue across time and place, and a memoir about life and art, museums and research.

Last week the Parisian daily Le Figaro announced that the Getty Museum had downgraded a sculpture previously attributed to Paul Gauguin t...

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 know...

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 join...

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 a...

Poppies got my attention because the circumstances—the regional museum, the work questioned by experts—were so similar to Flowers and F...

A disputed Van Gogh is authenticated by experts.

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

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