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41. Strong opinions about cow paintings
Gustave de Maupassant, Untitled, Location unknown This watercolor by the now forgotten artist Gustave de Maupassant sold at auction in...
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40. Winter 1888
Gauguin 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....
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34. Behind the curtain
I learned something last Thursday that merits an interruption. Vincent will continue to be sad and desperate, and Gauguin will continue...
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30. At the Pension
Bernard put up at the Pension Gloanec when he got to Pont-Aven, and Madame Gloanec seated him next to Gauguin...
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27. Transformations
Respected French art dealer Joseph Allard bought two Gauguin still lifes on April 14, 1923 for just over 9,000 francs total. Allard had
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24. The evidence of the feet
On Friday December 13, 1889, Gauguin wrote a long catching-up letter to van Gogh. Van Gogh was convalescing in the asylum at Saint-Rémy...
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2. 2016, 1923: The Mystery
One of those still lifes travels the world today as an authentic painting by Paul Gauguin. One hangs in