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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), The Studio of Emile Schuffenecker, 1889, French. Oil on canvas. 75 x 92 cm. Courtesy of Musée d’Orsay (http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html), Paris, France. Photograph by Erich Lessing © Art Resource, New York, New York.

When Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) fled Arles after his disastrous experiment of living and working in the Yellow House with Vincent van Gogh, he went straight to Paris, to the home of Emile Schuffenecker and his family—wife Louise and children Jeanne and Paul—where he knew "the good Schuff" would supply not only bed and board, but a place to work as well. This was not the first time he had availed himself of his friend's hospitality. The two had met nearly two decades earlier when both worked for the stockbroker firm of Bertin and discovered a mutual interest in painting. When the Paris markets crashed in 1882, the two were forced out; it . . . [Full Text of this Article]

M. Therese Southgate, MD

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