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45. En route
Vincent van Gogh, Le Train bleu, 1888, Musée Rodin Two men are on an overnight train to Paris at Christmas. They've both had a traumatic...
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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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39. Translations
Félix Fénéon, "Vitrines des marchands de tableaux," La Revue indépendante de littérature et d'art (6: 15, Janvier 1888), p. 170. Dig...
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37. Frames
On the first day in nearly a month in which I have been able to carve out space for Flowers and Fruit, the Gallica BnF website is...
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36. Mr. Butterworth's Mine
Almaden Quicksilver County Park, Santa Clara County, CA, 2020 (personal photo) While we count down the hours til WPI's promised release...
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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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33. Transactions
Vincent moved to Paris late in February 1886, and by early April he had found a local restaurant where he could eat cheaply.
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32. Winter
Gauguin left Pont-Aven for Paris in mid-October 1886; in some lost or undigitized exchange of letters, he had managed to get...
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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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28. 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...
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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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26. Always check the signature
It's the end of the summer semester, and there's no time to write anything new this week. Instead, I'm sharing this video from the BBC...
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25. On the expertise of Frenchmen in the tropics
Faithful readers may recall that a few months ago experts at the Getty Center in Los Angeles changed their minds about the attribution...
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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
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1. In which we discuss the digital world
If I were not able to access archives online as much as I can...
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