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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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    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...
    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...
    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...
    18.  Summer 1886
    Stephanie Brown

    18. Summer 1886

    Clovis Gauguin was seven years old the summer that his father discovered Brittany.
    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...
    16.  The Villa Brune
    Stephanie Brown

    16. The Villa Brune

    Two men connected by two circumstances: their addresses and paintings by Gauguin. Not just any paintings, either...
    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: ...
    12.  April 14, 1923:  Tableaux, pastels & dessins
    Stephanie Brown

    12. April 14, 1923: Tableaux, pastels & dessins

    Catalogue des Tableaux modernes, Hôtel Drouot, 14 Avril 1923. Institut national de l'histoire de l'art, Paris, VP 1923/254 I knew from...
    15.  During a pandemic
    Stephanie Brown

    15. During a pandemic

    Georges Seurat, Le Cirque, 1891 We are now at day 47 of sheltering at home. We're not in quarantine, technically, because none of us are...
    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...
    13.  "No known provenance prior to its appearance at auction..."
    Stephanie Brown

    13. "No known provenance prior to its appearance at auction..."

    Eustache Le Sueur, The Rape of Tamar, about 1640 The Metropolitan Museum of Art This morning's New York Times features an article titled...
    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.
    9.  1885:  From the provinces to Paris
    Stephanie Brown

    9. 1885: From the provinces to Paris

    Louis Georges Eléonor Roy was born in Poligny, in the foothills of the Alps, on July 23, 1862. His father, Jean-Eléonor, was 42; his...
    8.  1964:  Looking for Louis Roy
    Stephanie Brown

    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...
    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.
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