The WPI Oral Histories

WPI Oral History: Françoise Marnoni on Paul Gauguin


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Françoise Marnoni is a researcher and Managing Editor for the forthcoming volume of the Paul Gauguin catalogue raisonné. She began working for the Wildenstein Institute’s Paris office in 2000 while researching the Pierre-Auguste Renoir catalogue raisonné, and later on, the catalogue raisonnés of Maurice de Vlaminck and Kees Van Dongen. Highlights of the interview include discussions of her research methods, the use of correspondence and digital archival collections as research tools, provenance in Gauguin’s Tahitian period, and the particular advantages of a digital catalogue raisonné.


KEYWORDS: Paul Gauguin, Tahitian period, provenance research, correspondence, Ambroise Vollard, Raymond Cogniat, Georges Chaudet, Georges-Daniel de Monfreid, Gaston Lévy, archival collections, dossiers, catalogue raisonnés

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The WPI Oral HistoriesBy Wildenstein Plattner Institute