Stephanie Brown
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...
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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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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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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...