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...

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....

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...

A friend opened a bakery-café about 10 years ago in my hometown. She leased a downtown store front, bought a second hand professional...

Marie Henry was born in the provincial town of Moëlan, in the region of Pont-Aven, the administrative district of Quimperlé, in the...

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...

Longtime readers may recall that the Gauguin catalogue raisonné for the years 1888-1903 was promised for the end of December 2020. Our...

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...