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...

Reader, I was wrong. Flowers and Fruit, (detail), personal photo The corner of Flowers and Fruit's frame does not have a scrolling...

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...

Almaden Quicksilver County Park, Santa Clara County, CA, 2020 (personal photo) While we count down the hours til WPI's promised release...

I know that I promised to take you back to 1888, but we have some breaking news. The Wildenstein Plattner Institute is celebrating the...

I learned something last Thursday that merits an interruption. Vincent will continue to be sad and desperate, and Gauguin will continue...

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

Gauguin left Pont-Aven for Paris in mid-October 1886; in some lost or undigitized exchange of letters, he had managed to get...

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..

Bernard put up at the Pension Gloanec when he got to Pont-Aven, and Madame Gloanec seated him next to Gauguin...

When Bernard entered the studio, he met Charles Laval (1862-1894), Louis Anquetin (1861-1932) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)...

"This week," wrote the Pont-Aven correspondent for L'Union Agricole et Maritime on Sunday, August 1, 1886, "this week, we attended...

Respected French art dealer Joseph Allard bought two Gauguin still lifes on April 14, 1923 for just over 9,000 francs total. Allard had

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...

Faithful readers may recall that a few months ago experts at the Getty Center in Los Angeles changed their minds about the attribution...

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...

In 1938, a man named Jean-Albert Schmit donated a scrapbook of letters, photographs, and sketches to the Louvre. The oblong album was...

If you tap at the archives for long enough, a few cracks start to show. Follow the cracks and you can begin to pick off the layers...

Though there's a question as to whether Fruit in a Bowl was the still life Gauguin showed at the 8th Impressionist Exhibition, there's no...