This article, out late last week, is titled “19 Reasons Artists are the Worst.”
Two words: PAUL GAUGUIN. So, 19 20 Reasons Artists are the Worst.
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I learned Paul Gauguin worked on the Panama Canal.
I learned an estimated 22,000 people DIED during its construction.
I learned I cannot catch a BREAK.
found gauguin
Just what we need in the news: A found Gauguin. UGH.
Gauguin’s “Fruit on a Table or Still Life with a Small Dog” was recently rediscovered when an unassuming Italian paid an equivalent to $25 for the work at an auction back in the 70s.
The painting, which was unveiled by—of all things, the Italian CULTURE Ministry, earlier this week (the IRONY)—was stolen with another work. Together, they went to auction after chilling in a Lost and Found when the artworks were abandoned on a train post-theft.
I’m guessing they realized they had a Gauguin.
self-portrait as bonze
Vincent van Gogh’s “Self Portrait as a Japanese Bonze” was sent to Paul Gauguin as an old-school evite to to join him in south of France to create an artistic community.
He had previously written to Emile Bernard that he was impressed with the tradition of Japanese artists exchanging artworks with each other and hoped the two chums would join him in Arles. I’m calling this the original bromance.
It was later auctioned off in 1939 after being labeled “degenerate” by the Nazis and confiscated. It now belongs to the Harvard Art Museum.
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