The Lost Gauguin with Dr. Stephanie Brown
Dr. Stephanie Brown talks about a missing painting connected to the great Paul Gauguin and how it was found.
Today’s special episode is an interview with Dr. Stephanie Brown. Brown is Assistant Program Director for the Johns Hopkins University’s MA in Museum Studies. Dr. Brown earned her BA from Williams College and her PhD in French history from Stanford University.
Today we’re talking about her new book The Case of the Disappearing Gauguin: A Study of Authenticity and the Art Market. This exciting work is all about a little-known painting [allegedly] by renowned French artist Paul Gauguin, how it was lost, rediscovered in a small museum in California & the incredible journey it took to get there.
Script forthcoming
Dr. Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown is Assistant Program Director for the Johns Hopkins University’s MA in Museum Studies. She discovered Flowers and Fruit, a still-life formerly attributed to Paul Gauguin, in a museum in California’s Central Valley in 2016. Intrigued, she began to research the painting’s history and ask questions about its provenance. Dr. Brown earned her BA from Williams College and her PhD in French history from Stanford University. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and dogs.
You can find her at https://www.stephanieabrown.net/ and @sab_svp on Instagram and Threads.
You can find The Case of the Disappearing Gauguin here:
https://www.amazon.com/Case-Disappearing-Gauguin-Authenticity-Market/dp/1538173107
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538173114/The-Case-of-the-Disappearing-Gauguin-A-Study-of-Authenticity-and-the-Art-Market (30% discount code: RLFANDF30)
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