Stephanie Brown40. Winter 1888Gauguin 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....
Stephanie Brown34. Behind the curtainI learned something last Thursday that merits an interruption. Vincent will continue to be sad and desperate, and Gauguin will continue...
Stephanie Brown33. TransactionsVincent moved to Paris late in February 1886, and by early April he had found a local restaurant where he could eat cheaply.
Stephanie Brown32. WinterGauguin left Pont-Aven for Paris in mid-October 1886; in some lost or undigitized exchange of letters, he had managed to get...
Stephanie Brown31. Enter VincentIn the middle of October 1886, while Gauguin was packing up his canvases and hitting friends up for train fare, Vincent van Gogh had moved..
Stephanie Brown30. At the PensionBernard put up at the Pension Gloanec when he got to Pont-Aven, and Madame Gloanec seated him next to Gauguin...
Stephanie Brown29. The education of Emile BernardWhen Bernard entered the studio, he met Charles Laval (1862-1894), Louis Anquetin (1861-1932) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)...
Stephanie Brown28. 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...