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....

Félix Fénéon, "Vitrines des marchands de tableaux," La Revue indépendante de littérature et d'art (6: 15, Janvier 1888), p. 170. Dig...

Vincent moved to Paris late in February 1886, and by early April he had found a local restaurant where he could eat cheaply.

In the middle of October 1886, while Gauguin was packing up his canvases and hitting friends up for train fare, Vincent van Gogh had moved..