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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...
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57. Signatures and attributions
To greet the New Year we have a visual game to play that takes us from the typeface of Twitter to the painterly loops of Paul Gauguin....
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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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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...
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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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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...
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44. Missing years
Longtime readers may recall that the Gauguin catalogue raisonné for the years 1888-1903 was promised for the end of December 2020. Our...
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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...