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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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    58. Around the buvette
    Stephanie Brown

    58. Around the buvette

    Theo van Gogh to his brother Vincent, Paris, February 9, 1890: De Haan sent me a painting to dispatch to his brother. One can see that...
    53.  Two men walk into a bar
    Stephanie Brown

    53. Two men walk into a bar

    A friend opened a bakery-café about 10 years ago in my hometown. She leased a downtown store front, bought a second hand professional...
    51. On the beach road
    Stephanie Brown

    51. On the beach road

    A ferry crossing the Laita River at Le Pouldu, early 1900s, Archives Finistère The chemin des Grands Sables still runs along the coast;...
    50. Scale
    Stephanie Brown

    50. Scale

    One evening in early spring when we were living in Châteauneuf de Grasse, in the Alpes-Maritimes department of France, my husband and I...
    49. In Le Pouldu
    Stephanie Brown

    49. In Le Pouldu

    Le Pouldu was where the roads came to an end. The Laita river bounded it on one side; the ocean on another. It was known for its sand...
    48. What the archives tell us
    Stephanie Brown

    48. What the archives tell us

    Marie Henry was born in the provincial town of Moëlan, in the region of Pont-Aven, the administrative district of Quimperlé, in the...
    47.  La rentrée
    Stephanie Brown

    47. La rentrée

    I check the website of the Musée de Pont-Aven every month or so, hoping that a miracle will have transpired and their archives will...
    45. En route
    Stephanie Brown

    45. En route

    Vincent van Gogh, Le Train bleu, 1888, Musée Rodin Two men are on an overnight train to Paris at Christmas. They've both had a traumatic...
    43.  Summer afternoons
    Stephanie Brown

    43. Summer afternoons

    There's a story that Zola used to walk the streets of Paris copying shop proprietors' names into his cahier. When your novels had as many...
    40.  Winter 1888
    Stephanie Brown

    40. Winter 1888

    Gauguin was ill and the weather was bad. The winter of 1887-88 was cold, grey, and damp in Paris. The weather changed only to get worse....
    39.  Translations
    Stephanie Brown

    39. Translations

    Félix Fénéon, "Vitrines des marchands de tableaux," La Revue indépendante de littérature et d'art (6: 15, Janvier 1888), p. 170. Dig...
    36.  Mr. Butterworth's Mine
    Stephanie Brown

    36. Mr. Butterworth's Mine

    Almaden Quicksilver County Park, Santa Clara County, CA, 2020 (personal photo) While we count down the hours til WPI's promised release...
    33.  Transactions
    Stephanie Brown

    33. Transactions

    Vincent moved to Paris late in February 1886, and by early April he had found a local restaurant where he could eat cheaply.
    31.  Enter Vincent
    Stephanie Brown

    31. Enter Vincent

    In the middle of October 1886, while Gauguin was packing up his canvases and hitting friends up for train fare, Vincent van Gogh had moved..
    30.  At the Pension
    Stephanie Brown

    30. At the Pension

    Bernard put up at the Pension Gloanec when he got to Pont-Aven, and Madame Gloanec seated him next to Gauguin...
    28.  A new sort of party in Pont-Aven
    Stephanie Brown

    28. A new sort of party in Pont-Aven

    "This week," wrote the Pont-Aven correspondent for L'Union Agricole et Maritime on Sunday, August 1, 1886, "this week, we attended...
    25.  On the expertise of Frenchmen in the tropics
    Stephanie Brown

    25. On the expertise of Frenchmen in the tropics

    Faithful readers may recall that a few months ago experts at the Getty Center in Los Angeles changed their minds about the attribution...
    20.  "Tall, dark, rather handsome"
    Stephanie Brown

    20. "Tall, dark, rather handsome"

    It may seem that there is nothing new under the sun. And then there's a portrait that hasn't been seen before...
    17.  Introducing Pont-Aven
    Stephanie Brown

    17. Introducing Pont-Aven

    By 1879, a train ran once a day from Paris to Finistère, Land's End, at the eastern edge of Brittany...
    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.
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