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

Two men connected by two circumstances: their addresses and paintings by Gauguin. Not just any paintings, either...

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: ...

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

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...

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

Eustache Le Sueur, The Rape of Tamar, about 1640 The Metropolitan Museum of Art This morning's New York Times features an article titled...

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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...

Meanwhile, back in Stockton, I began studying the provenance for Flowers and Fruit that the Wildensteins had put together in 1964. I...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...