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54. Meijer de Haan
Nothing that we know of Meijer de Haan’s life before 1888 suggests that he would book into an auberge run by a single mother on the...
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52. Léa
We do know one thing that Marie Henry did while the Buvette de la Plage was under construction: she got pregnant. In May or June 1888,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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29. The education of Emile Bernard
When Bernard entered the studio, he met Charles Laval (1862-1894), Louis Anquetin (1861-1932) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)...
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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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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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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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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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