Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890)



The Red Vineyard,
the only painting van Gogh sold during his lifetime
is connected to the history of Cremerie de Paris.

Links between Vincent van Gogh and Cremerie de Paris / VB.com

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890) knew about Cremerie de Paris and the Hotel de Villeroy Bourbon from his friend Eugene Boch (1855 - 1941). Eugene was the nephew of Octavie Villeroy (1823 - 1899) married to his father's older brother Eugen Boch (1809 - .1898) Octavie was the granddaughter of a ceramics producer Nicolas Villeroy (1759 - 1843) named after Nicolas I Neufville Nicolas II Neufville de Villeroy (1470? - 1554) Nicolas III de Villeroy (1525 - 1598) Nicolas IV de Villeroy (1542 - 1617) and Nicolas V de Villeroy (1598 - 1685) Octavie Boch had a strong relation with Eugene Boch who was also the godchild of her husband. She transmited to Eugène her fasination for the glamorour of the old Villeroys that onced lived at VB / Cremerie de Paris. Octavie is also the 3 x great grandmother of the present editor of Cremerie de Paris, home of

images of the glamorous old Villeroys from VB
that fascinated Eugene Boch.
The picture also shows Pavillon Baltard N°10 facing Cremerie de Paris
The Red Vineyard Painting,
a letter from Vincent van Gogh
and pictures of Octavie Villeroy and young Eugène Boch.


As a child the editor of Cremerie de Paris had the chance
to spend a lot of time with his grandfather (on the right side)
His grandfather had known his own great uncle Eugene
and his great aunt Anna Boch.
On the left van Gogh's friends Anna and Eugene Boch when they were old.
Therese Thomas (Lady that receives the flowers)
wrote a book about Anna Boch
and she was a path setter for todays Cremerie de Paris
as a Pop Up Store Museum.


picture in front of a copy of the Eugene Boch portrait
taken summer 2009,
two years before Cremerie de Paris reopened
as a Pop Up Store Location.


Nathalia Brodskaya from the Hermitage Museum
photographed 2019 in the entrance
of the Marguerite de Navarre Metro
staircase facing Cremerie de Paris.

Nathalia Brodskaya explained us
that few places
have seen so many Impressionist
or Post Impressionist artists
walk through it's doors
as the Cremeries de Paris did.


Not only thanks to Eugene Boch
but also thanks to it's geographic location
facing the Pavillons Baltard (destroyed).
picture taken by Hippolyte Blancard
in front of Cremerie de Paris N°1
(building on the right replaced by Novotel)

Since the times Joseph Staline (1878 - 1953)
was governing Russia
Nathalia was asked to research
the State of Russia Modern Art Collection
partly based on the avant garde art collectors
Sergei Shchukin (1854 - 1936)
and Ivan Morozov (1871 - 1921)
.
She is amused that Cremerie de Paris
is related to the Romanovs
making different Russian stories meet in Paris.
We talk to her on the phone from time to time.

van Gogh night effects Starry Backgrounds

The friendship between Eugen Boch and Vincent van Gogh is also interesting in relation to night effects in van Gogh paintings Cafe Terrace at Night first painting using starry backgrounds To make Eugène look more glamorous van Gogh invented a starry sky behind him. Starry Nights over the Rhone letter from van Gogh to Eugene Boch writing about his paintings and the project to make the starry night.

Vincent van Gogh est né le 30-03-1853
à Groot Zundert, Pays Bas.
Il a commence à peindre en 1880.

Van Gogh est venu à Paris autour du 05-03-1886.
Il habitait chez son frère Theo van Gogh (1857 - 1891)
au 54 rue Lepic 75018 Paris (Montmartre).



Comme beacoup d'autres artistes il a suivi
des cours à l'atélier Cormon.

Eugène Boch faisait egalement
partie de l'atélier Corman.
Contrairement à la plupart des autres elèves
il avait la chance d'être très fortuné.
Il utilisait son argent pour acheter
les oeuvres des ses amis,
debutant ainsi une des
toutes premières collections d'Art moderne.


Eugene aimait emmener ses amis
à la Cremerie de Paris,
cet endroit étant liés à tant d'histoires
transmis par sa tante Octavie Villeroy.
Il était fier d'avoir des liens avec en endroit
que Leonardo da Vinci connaissait déjà.

L'ambiance du marché des Halles lui plaisait
également. A cette époque Eugène habitait
aussi à Montmartre, rue Ganneron,
pas loin de la rue Lepic.



Van Gogh révait d'avoir Eugene Boch
comme ami,
probablement aussi comme supporter.
11-08-1888 à Arles est venue l'idée
de faire le portrait d' Eugène Boch
le Poète.

Pendant son sejour à Arles
et à travers des lettre
Eugene était également "présent"
lors de la création d'autres
chef d'oeuvre.

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Vincent van Gogh was born 30-03-1853
in Groot Zundert, Netherlands.
He started to paint in 1880.
van Gogh came to Paris around 05-03-1886
and lived with his brother 54 rue Lepic,
Paris Montmartre.
He enters the academie Cormon where he meets
many artist.

Eugène Boch was one of the Cormon students.
Unlike most others
he was in the fortunate situation
to be quite wealthy.
He used his money
to buy paintings from his friends,
thus starting one of the very first
major Modern Art collections.

Eugène Boch loved to bring his friends
to Cremerie de Paris / VB,
and he loved telling them
glamorous stories from the past
transmitted
by his aunt Octavie Villeroy.

Even Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
was part of the VB stories,
as Nicolas II de Villeroy
who was an advisor for King Francois I
was in his circles.

Van Gogh dreamed of being connected
to Eugène Boch
both as someone to help his career
but also as a friend.
1888 he invited him to the Yellow House
in Arles.
11-08-1888 van Gogh had the idea
to make Eugène Boch's portrait
the Poet.


In Arles a scretch of Eugene Boch
was hanging above van Goghs bed
in the Yellow House.


Eugène is still there not in the Yellow House
but in a painting
in the first version of the Bedroom
today at the van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Next to Eugène a portrait of Paul Eugene Milliet.

Many people know the bedroom painting
but not everybody the stories behind it
like the links between van Gogh
Eugene Boch
and Cremerie de Paris.



Eugenes older sister
Anna Boch (1848 - 1936)
bought the Red Vineyard.


If van Gogh had not died so soon
he would certainly have painted
Cremerie de Paris.

The magic of Cremerie de Paris

What is a little crazy
is that over a hundred years later, 1999,
the stories about van Gogh
interested a Lady from Los Angeles.
Cremerie de Paris
met her when it
operated the first Internet cafe in Paris.


At that time most Hotels in France
had no internet access.
US Tourists that were already online
had difficulties to get connected in Paris.
As an avant garde Internet hotspot
- and without realizing it -
Cremerie de Paris
run into many Tech Pioneers.

The Lady was so amusing
we invited her for a coffee.
It was a moment
the cafe was not too buisy
and Ivanka was there to help.

At the Bistro des Halles
located outside

the conversation turned to
someone that had been
to Cremerie de Paris 112 years before ....
Vincent van Gogh.

"I have to go now,
but give me your email,
next time I'm in Paris
I want to hear
more about these crazy and funny stories ..."


A few months later
she returned
with her husband
who had been on the first
flight to the Moon.

Writing this article we found
this Video of our friend from Los Angeles.
We had the chance to meet Lois Aldrin (1929 - 2018)
and Buzz Aldrin
once or twice a year
from 1999 to 2005.

Another article needs to be
written for this website .

The magic of Cremerie de Paris,
is that you run into people
like a man from the Moon
you would never expect to meet ...


If Vincent van Gogh could return
to Cremerie de Paris today
he would have so much fun
to talk to some of the World's most talented
Pop Up Store / Ad Event designers.


This image from 2023 shows the designers
Julie Thomas and Camille Martinez
that created a subtropical restaurant
for Sony Playstation
and Zyad Rouissi
who imagined 3 Pop Up Stores,
one for Coca Cola


and two for
Subway 1 and Subway 2

Sometimes
people from the history of
Cremerie de Paris
reappear in
paintings made for a Pop Up Store.