 
 
Start: Métro La Fourche
End: Métro Anvers
Paris
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Here the visitors stroll along Avenue de Clichy
passing Signac's home (the only friend
to visit Vincent in the hospital in Arles after
he'd sliced off part of his ear), past two restaurants,
and Père
Lathuille's--favorite hangouts of the ,
and then along boulevard de Clichy, past
Seurat (who inspired Vincent to paint larger
after he'd moved to Arles) and Signac's
studios, past Cormon's atelier, where Vincent
studied for a few months and where he met his
best friends (Bemard and Lautrec), past the , past other cabarets frequented by the
Van Gogh brothers and Toulouse-Lautrec
(Le Chat Noir, Elysée Montmartre), ending
at place d'Anvers where Alexander Reid
lived. Reid, a competitor of the brothers
who also wanted to import the Impressionists
to England, looked so much like Vincent
that people often had trouble telling the two
apart.
The walk ends just doors away at Mary Cassatt's
home, at the address found in Theo's
carnet. Each entry, as expected, brims with surprising
vignettes connected to his life.
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