Van Gogh’s sunflower paintings may reflect ancient Greek mythology, including the story of Clytie and Apollo, symbolising ...

And so, the Haggin Museum not only owned historical artifacts but also prized art works, the most valuable of which was a small, undated painting entitled “Flowers and Fruit” by Paul Gauguin.

Courtesy The Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA. Brown’s meticulous and detailed research into the history of the painting might lead one to wonder why there would be any question about the authenticity of ...

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T he first time Paul Gauguin was canceled, his last breath had scarcely left his body. The Paris-born painter, writer, ceramicist, sculptor, and art world enfant terrible had gone blind.

The way in which Paul Gauguin handled the woven basket and hand towel in this 1884 still life are clearly reminiscent of other Post-Impressionist painters like Van Gogh. There's nary a straight line ...

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The painting is one of a pair. On an accompanying yet contrasting canvas, Van Gogh depicted Gauguin’s Chair, 1888, in warm reds and greens, with a cushion supporting modern novels and a glowing ...

Once stolen along with seven other paintings by Cézanne and recovered for a ransom, The Card Players set the record for the ...

When Paul Gauguin’s Flowers and Fruit arrived at the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California, in 1939, the then-fledgling institution had no idea what to do with it. The Haggin, after all, was ...

“Flowers and Fruit” was dedicated to “à l’ami Roy” — “the friend Roy” — per the words written above Gauguin’s signature on the painting. One of Brown’s first quests was to ...

Later that night, Van Gogh used the same razor to chop off his own ear. For years afterwards, Gauguin would ask himself: might the outcome have been different if he had disarmed Van Gogh and tried ...