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571 To Theo van Gogh. Paris, between about Sunday, 17 and Tuesday, 19 July 1887.
in note 2:
...i, as can be deduced from letter 572. In 1903 Gauguin wrote that Van Gogh had been very much in love...
576 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, December 1887.
in note 3:
Gauguin had been staying since his return from Martinique in mid-November 1887 with Emile Schuffeneck...
in note 2:
...Sunflowers gone to seed (F 376 / JH 1331) for Gauguin’s On the shore of the lake, Martinique, 1887...
in translation:
Paul Gauguin
578 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 24 February 1888.
in note 11:
...een to Pont-Aven in August 1886 and had met Paul Gauguin there. The latter had been staying there aga...
581 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Pont-Aven, on or about Wednesday, 29 February 1888.
in note 5:
Gauguin was staying in the boarding-house run by Marie-Jeanne Gloanec-Morvan in Pont-Aven, 13 place d...
in note 4:
...rch, Vincent told Theo that he had written to Gauguin and given him Russell’s address in the hope ...
in note 3:
In 1888 Gauguin suffered for several months from the after-effects of the malaria, dysentery and hepa...
in note 2:
...r 1887 Theo had taken several recent works by Gauguin on commission. He showed four paintings, The b...
in note 1:
Gauguin was evidently unaware that Van Gogh had gone to Arles; he himself having left Paris for Britt...
in translation:
Paul Gauguin
582 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 2 March 1888.
in note 5:
Paul Gauguin, The beach at Dieppe, 1885 (Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek; W178/W166). Ill. 2143. T...
in note 4:
...583 that on second thoughts Van Gogh wrote to Gauguin direct rather than enclosing a letter for him....
in note 3:
We do not know which of Gauguin’s works this was, but there is a good chance that it was one of the...
in note 2:
... got to know in Paris, to buy a painting from Gauguin. He repeatedly returned to this question; Russ...
in translation:
I’ve had a letter here from Gauguin, who says he’s been ill in bed for a fortnight. That he’s b...
583 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 9 March 1888.
in note 6:
...trying to persuade Russell to buy a work from Gauguin (see also letter 582). As far as we know, Gaug...
in translation:
The letter from Gauguin that I had intended to send you but which for a moment I thought I had burned...
That poor Gauguin has no luck, I do fear that in his case convalescence will take longer than the for...
584 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 10 March 1888.
in note 6:
... among whom he counted Guillaumin, Seurat and Gauguin, as well as Bernard, Anquetin, Angrand, Toulou...
in translation:
And we also invite you, Guillaumin, Seurat, Gauguin &c. &c. to join us (your pictures being put to th...
585 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 16 March 1888.
in translation:
...end you the letters. I’m really sorry about Gauguin’s situation, especially since, now that his ...
586 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Pont-Aven, between about Saturday, 17 and about Monday, 19 March 1888.
in note 2:
Vincent had urged Theo to do his best to sell Gauguin’s work, and had given Russell and Gauguin eac...
in note 1:
This letter – Van Gogh’s reply to Gauguin’s letter 581 – has not survived.
in translation:
Paul Gauguin
588 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 21 or Thursday, 22 March 1888.
in translation:
I’ve had a line from Gauguin, who complains about the bad weather, is still unwell and says nothing...
Included with the other letters the one from Gauguin, so that you can read them.
589 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 25 March 1888.
in note 4:
See for Gauguin’s The beach at Dieppe: letter 582, n. 5. Tersteeg had asked Theo to send him a numb...
... Monet, Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Guillaumin, Gauguin, Van Gogh (The Seine with the Clichy bridge (F...
in translation:
I hope you’ll send him Gauguin’s fine seascape. But how pleased I am that Tersteeg has replied in...
590 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 30 March 1888.
in note 4:
...e impressionniste et synthétiste, of which Paul Gauguin was the leading light, mounted an exhibition...
599 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Thursday, 19 April 1888.
in translation:
...ere for the grey sea of the north. If you see Gauguin, greet him warmly for me; I must write to him ...
602 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 1 May 1888.
in note 17:
...ises the possibility of sharing a studio with Gauguin, who at this point was in Pont-Aven in Brittan...
in translation:
...ne else, and I’d very much like to. Perhaps Gauguin will come to the south. Perhaps I’ll come to...
606 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 7 May 1888.
in translation:
...n’t manage to get by on the same expenses as those who have gone to Brittany, Bernard and Gauguin.
612 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 22 May 1888.
in note 3:
Theo had paid Gauguin 400 francs for Among the mangoes: see Gauguin lettres 1983, p. 33.
in note 1:
...g about the negresses in the paintings that Paul Gauguin had painted in Martinique between May and Oc...
in translation:
Ah, you do darned well to think of Gauguin – they’re high poetry, his negresses — and everythin...
613 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 26 May 1888.
in translation:
I prefer to believe that Bernard or Gauguin will exchange drawings with us in which the Dutch will se...
615 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 May 1888.
in translation:
I’m very keen to make such an album for Gauguin and one for Bernard. Because the drawings will beco...
616 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 or Tuesday, 29 May 1888.
in note 7:
...ad tried to persuade Russell to buy work from Gauguin; see letter 582, n. 2. So far it had not produ...
in note 6:
...ter 621). Vincent had moreover already written to Gauguin (see letter 617). Neither letter is known.
in note 2:
On 6 December 1865 Gauguin signed on as a junior officer in the merchant navy aboard the Luzitano, in...
in note 1:
Gauguin, who had already been living on credit for three months, had asked Theo for help in a letter ...
in translation:
I thought of Gauguin and here we are — if Gauguin wants to come here there’s Gauguin’s fare, an...
...ay, 250 a month if every month, in addition to and apart from my work, you were to have a Gauguin.
So herewith rough draft of a letter to Gauguin, which I’ll write if you approve, with the changes t...
...it. It would please me so much if you had the Gauguins first. I’m not good at cooking &c., but the...
...nd to expand on this letter, I’m writing to Gauguin, but without saying anything about all this, j...
My dear old Gauguin,
617 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 29 or Wednesday, 30 May 1888.
in translation:
I’ve written to Gauguin, and I only said I was sorry we worked so far from each other, and that it...
...o join you in letting those who’ll go here, work here. Then Gauguin would certainly come, I think.
It would be risking a lot to take on Gauguin, but that’s the direction in which we have to work, an...
620 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 5 June 1888.
in note 1:
...contained his reaction to the draft letter to Gauguin that Vincent had enclosed with letter 616. We ...
in translation:
We’ll still have to write to Gauguin. The problem is this bloody journey, since we urge him to make...
If Gauguin came here, he and I could perhaps accompany Bernard to Africa when he goes there to do his...
621 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 5 or Wednesday, 6 June 1888.
in note 2:
...s sent the letter to read and forwarded it to Gauguin, who in turn sent it on to Emile Schuffenecker...
in translation:
If Gauguin wants to accept, and if the only obstacle to going into business would be the travel, it�...
I believe in the victory of Gauguin and other artists — but — between then and now there’s a lo...
622 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Thursday, 7 June 1888.
in translation:
... if there’s a bit too much. It appears that Gauguin is still ill. I’m quite curious to know what...
623 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 12 June 1888.
in note 5:
Gauguin had written to Theo on 22 May 1888 and told him that by then he had already been living on cr...
in note 4:
...he letter to Emile Schuffenecker (n. 2 above) Gauguin set out his plans, for which he hoped Albert D...
in note 3:
Gauguin and Laval sailed together from Saint-Nazaire to Panama on 10 April 1887, and then on to Marti...
in note 2:
This is the letter from Vincent to Gauguin, enclosed with letter 621 to Theo of 5 or 6 June. Gauguin ...
in note 1:
Gauguin’s letter to Vincent and Theo’s to Gauguin are not known. The latter must have been the re...
in note 15:
In the 1881-1883 period Gauguin introduced clients to the Durand-Ruel gallery and mediated in purchas...
in translation:
I’ve received a letter from Gauguin, who said he’d received a letter from you containing 50 franc...
If Gauguin would prefer to take the risk of throwing himself back into business at this point — if ...
I’m very curious to know what Gauguin will do. He says that in the past he got people to buy Impres...
624 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 12 or Wednesday, 13 June 1888.
in note 6:
...llery at 54 rue Lepic. According to Rewald, Paul Gauguin was its first owner and he left it with Port...
in translation:
I’m very curious to know what Gauguin will do. I hope he’ll be able to come. You’ll tell me it ...
Gauguin, no more than I, would be rescued if he sold a few canvases. In order to be able to work we ...
If Gauguin wished to join us, I believe we’d have taken a step forward. It would establish us squar...
625 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 15 and Saturday, 16 June 1888.
in note 9:
See letter 623, n. 4 for Gauguin’s plan. Van Gogh’s reference to Jewish bankers later in the l...
in note 2:
...e letter it can be deduced that Theo had sent Gauguin’s reply to ‘the more clear-cut proposal’...
in translation:
...t, I believe, is what I said in the letter to Gauguin, and that’s what I believe now, having read ...
And perhaps on the business with Gauguin, too. Let’s take a look at that: I thought he was at bay a...
But — if Gauguin isn’t at bay, then I’m not in too much of a hurry.
I don’t wish to discuss Gauguin’s plan, having considered the situation once — last winter — ...
...you can’t live with him. I won’t write to Gauguin direct — I’ll send you the letter — beca...
... in particular rather strange in this plan of Gauguin’s: the society offers its protection in exch...
Here’s the letter for Gauguin — I’m well aware that in his there is this passage ‘I ask (unde...
...n we could stick to. It’s all very well for Gauguin to say, he’s very very upset and it’s a pi...
in note 23:
Gauguin wrote in a letter to Theo that he owed the stockbroker Eugène Mirtil 300 francs and that he ...
in note 22:
Gauguin married a Danish woman, Mette Gad, in Paris on 22 November 1873; they had five children. In N...
627 To John Peter Russell. Arles, on or about Sunday, 17 June 1888.
in note 6:
Paul Gauguin, Negresses talking or Conversation (Tropics), 1887 (W251/W227) (Sale, Christie’s New Y...
in translation:
...I believe he’s working hard and doing well. Gauguin is in Brittany too but has again suffered of a...
...elieve my brother has also another picture by Gauguin which is as I heard say very fine, two negro w...
RM15 Fragment of a letter on the back of the sketch Head of a girl (F 1507a / JH 1466). To John Peter Russell. Arles, on or about Sunday, 17 June 1888.
in translation:
Gauguin is still at Pont-Aven and suffering of his liver complaint but working nevertheless
628 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 19 June 1888.
in translation:
Do you know that we’ve been very foolish, Gauguin, you and I, in not all going to the same place? B...
Gauguin’s bored too in Pont-Aven; complains about isolation, like you. If you went to see him — b...
in note 20:
... It emerges from letter 718 that Milliet gave Gauguin this copy of the book in November 1888 in exch...
629 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 21 June 1888.
in translation:
I’m curious to know what Gauguin will do, and if Bernard won’t go to join him in Pont-Aven; I alr...
I’m very curious to know what Gauguin will do, but to dare to urge him to come — no — because I...
630 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 23 June 1888.
in note 10:
...4, p. 332 (n. 24) and Distel 1989, pp. 33-34. Gauguin had paintings lined there (see letter 776, n. ...
631 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 25 June 1888.
in note 7:
See letter 623, n. 4, for Gauguin’s plan.
in translation:
If Gauguin weren’t to come to work with me, then I have no other resources to balance my expenses b...
I’m quite curious to know what Gauguin will do — the main thing is not to discourage him — I st...
632 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Tuesday, 26 June 1888.
in note 24:
... tout, cet espèce de Salomon méthodiste’. Gauguin used precisely the same word, ‘quel emmerdeu...
634 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Thursday, 28 June 1888.
in note 11:
Van Gogh had written to Gauguin (see letter 625) and was eagerly awaiting his reply; we learn from le...
in translation:
Nothing from Gauguin. I very much hope to receive your letter tomorrow, forgive my carelessness. Hand...
635 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 1 July 1888.
in note 3:
On 8 July 1888 Gauguin wrote to Emile Schuffenecker: ‘I told Van Gogh that I accepted his proposal ...
in translation:
...letter brings me a big piece of news — that Gauguin accepts the proposal. Indeed, the best thing w...
If all goes well and Gauguin thinks it’s a good idea to join us, we could make the thing more serio...
636 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 5 July 1888.
in note 1:
...probably also sounded him out again about buying a painting from Gauguin. See also letter 582, n. 2.
in translation:
...manage to write. I’d have liked to write to Gauguin again, because I fear he may be iller than he ...
637 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 8 or Monday, 9 July 1888.
in note 15:
...s probably referring here to the mediation of Gauguin’s friend Schuffenecker in the possible purch...
in translation:
...ing to them (the Tanguys), Guillaumin, Monet, Gauguin, all owe them money; is that true or not?? In ...
...e — it would be better in my opinion too if Gauguin came here — for that reason of the coming wi...
... help with the costs to be found in order for Gauguin to come. It’s very good, what Schuffenecker�...
638 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 9 or Tuesday, 10 July 1888.
in translation:
...lours and canvas in reserve for the time when Gauguin comes. I very much wish we could rein ourselve...
...t say anything to that. If he doesn’t buy a Gauguin it’s because he can’t. If he can do it, I�...
...him the thing wouldn’t come about, but that Gauguin having been ill, and given the complication th...
I think about Gauguin a lot, and would have plenty of ideas for paintings and for work in general. A...
639 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 13 July 1888.
in translation:
...hen we’re embarking on the partnership with Gauguin, to be of use on the money side, I’ve done a...
... nature in these parts. Lastly — because of Gauguin, what if we were to show the drawings, the har...
640 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.
in note 8:
In this exchange Gauguin acquired Sunflowers gone to seed (F 375 / JH 1329) and Sunflowers gone to se...
in translation:
...on the contrary I wouldn’t be astonished if Gauguin, like me, will wish to have some of these Japa...
...dy there, and I having made the exchange with Gauguin, we all got something. If Gauguin were willing...
...nth, knowing that you’re grappling with the Gauguin business and the arrival of our sisters. So I�...
...al. Or again, Thomas could buy something from Gauguin if he knows the partnership we have in tra...
641 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Sunday, 15 July 1888.
in translation:
The fact is that Gauguin — who has been very ill — is probably going to spend the coming winter w...
... of is that if we exhibit in Marseille, sooner or later Gauguin and I will encourage you to join us.
644 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, between Tuesday, 17 and Friday, 20 July 1888.
in translation:
Have you any news from Gauguin? I wrote to him again last week, to know how it was going with his hea...
645 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 22 July 1888.
in note 7:
Gauguin owed money to the doctor and the inn in Pont-Aven, where he had been living on credit for mon...
in translation:
...t at present you should have had no news from Gauguin either — and I presume he’s both ill and d...
If G. can’t pay his debt nor pay for his journey —
How simple it would be with Gauguin — but the move — afterwards — will he still be happy? But a...
646 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Pont-Aven, on or about Sunday, 22 July 1888.
in note 5:
See letter 623, n. 3, for Gauguin and Laval’s stay on Martinique. The watercolours Laval brought...
in note 4:
Van Gogh must have written to Gauguin about the art dealer Georges Thomas; see letter 617, n. 8, and ...
in note 2:
Gauguin had got to know Achille Granchi-Taylor in Paris in 1885. Both artists were in Pont-Aven in 18...
in note 1:
...(private collection). Ill. 105. A letter from Gauguin to Schuffenecker of 8 July 1888 also contains ...
in translation:
Paul Gauguin
647 John Peter Russell to Vincent van Gogh. Belle-Île-en-Mer, Sunday, 22 July 1888.
in note 3:
See for Gauguin, Among the mangoes: letter 612, n. 1. Theo had bought the painting for 400 francs at ...
in note 2:
See for Gauguin’s Negresses talking or Conversation (Tropics): letter 627, n. 6.
in translation:
It is most good of you to give Monsieur Gauguin a leg up. Not knowing the man I can’t say if he des...
648 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 24 or Wednesday, 25 July 1888.
in translation:
I’m sending you Gauguin’s letter enclosed herewith; fortunately he’s regaining his health.
...it would make an enormous difference to me if Gauguin was here, because the days pass now without sa...
650 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 29 July 1888.
in note 8:
See for Gauguin’s Among the mangoes: letter 612, n. 1.
in note 7:
See for Gauguin’s Negresses talking or Conversation (Tropics): letter 627, n. 6.
in translation:
...��I would have gone to Boussod’s to see the Gauguin, negresses talking, had it not been that I was...
I’ll write this to Gauguin and will ask him for croquis of paintings. We shouldn’t push this busi...
Remember that with Gauguin we should in no way change the idea of coming to his aid if the proposal i...
652 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 31 July 1888.
in note 8:
See for Gauguin’s Among the mangoes: letter 612, n. 1. Russell had expressed an interest in this wo...
in note 3:
...spose him favourably towards buying a work by Gauguin and consequently does not seem to be connected...
in translation:
... to push Russell, perhaps he’d purchase the Gauguin that you bought, and if there was no other way...
...have the large painting, if necessary, but as Gauguin will still very often be in need of money, i...
653 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 31 July 1888.
in note 8:
See for Gauguin’s Among the mangoes: letter 612, n. 1.
in note 11:
For Gauguin’s On the shore of the lake, Martinique, which Van Gogh exchanged for Sunflowers gone to...
in note 10:
See letter 623, n. 3, for Gauguin’s stay on Martinique.
in translation:
...ally quite possible, and with a very spirited painter at that who, however, has a life full of cares...
654 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 3 August 1888.
in translation:
I’ve received a letter from Gauguin in which he talks about painting and complains about not yet ha...
...f year, that’s what I’d very much like to decide after Gauguin has seen it, and not without him.
655 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Sunday, 5 August 1888.
in translation:
...rgotten to answer your question as to whether Gauguin is still in Pont-Aven. Yes, he’s still there...
656 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 6 August 1888.
in translation:
...tion lacks a more spiritual touch. What would Gauguin say about it if he was here? Would he be in fa...
657 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 8 August 1888.
in note 15:
For the boarding house where Gauguin was staying, see letter 581, n. 5.
in translation:
...hat I’ll have to make the journey myself if Gauguin doesn’t manage to sort out the mess he’s i...
...e seen this part of the country. Well, first we’ll have to see how the Gauguin business turns out.
This morning I was at a washing-place with figures of women as broad as Gauguin’s negresses.
658 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 9 August 1888.
in translation:
I think about Gauguin a lot, and I assure you that one way or another, whether it’s he who comes he...
And I’d very much like to see Gauguin there too, for a fair length of time.
Isn’t it true that in this business with Gauguin, with him spending 2.75 a day (at least, I think I...
660 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 13 August 1888.
in translation:
It very often seems wiser to me to go to Gauguin instead of recommending to him the life down here; I...
I must write to Gauguin today to ask him what he pays models, and to find out if there are any. There...
Well, Gauguin and I must look ahead, we must work at getting a roof over our heads, beds; the essenti...
...he advantage of the south. But I believe that Gauguin will never give up the battle of Paris; he has...
... our Dutch heathlands. I realize already that Gauguin hopes for success — he couldn’t do without...
662 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 15 August 1888.
in note 6:
...wings he had sent him and to his request that Russell buy a work from Gauguin. See letter 652, n. 3.
in translation:
No reply from our friend Russell, and Gauguin fully deserved one, for sure.
663 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 18 August 1888.
in note 8:
... of an artist friend Van Gogh was thinking of Gauguin, with whom he hoped to share his studio in Arl...
in note 7:
...speak.’ Quoted in Gray 1963, p. 10 (n. 32). Gauguin had made a series of pots and vases together w...
664 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 19 or Monday, 20 August 1888.
in note 3:
...e Gloanec. See exhib. cat. Paris 2003, p. 24. Gauguin had written to Van Gogh about his relations wi...
in note 2:
...d answered Bernard’s question as to whether Gauguin was still in Pont-Aven in the affirmative. How...
in note 1:
...s promise to make it financially possible for Gauguin to come was perhaps connected to Uncle Vincent...
in translation:
...ed with it. And you’re very kind to promise Gauguin and me to put us in a position to carry out th...
I personally believe that Gauguin prefers to manage with his friends in the north, and if by good luc...
...me in a position to sleep at home, and to be able to put up Gauguin or another person there as well.
So, if Gauguin comes or not, it’s his business, and from the moment we’re ready to receive him, a...
... the plan remains as true and as firm whether Gauguin comes or not, as long as our goal doesn’t ch...
If you’re kind enough to put us, Gauguin and me, in a position to set ourselves up like that —
...the strength to go on very long like that. If Gauguin can find the same opportunity at Pont-Aven, th...
Lastly, vis-à-vis Gauguin, however much we appreciate him, I believe we’ll have to behave like the...
All in all, Gauguin leaves me absolutely in the dark about Pont-Aven; by his silence toward my letter...
665 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 21 August 1888.
in note 11:
... counted on Bernard’s showing the letter to Gauguin (and possibly other people too). See also lett...
in translation:
I’m very pleased that you’ve joined Gauguin.
...ainting. I would dare to believe that you and Gauguin would understand it, but how ugly they’ll fi...
666 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 21 or Wednesday, 22 August 1888.
in translation:
...ell you that I’ve just received a line from Gauguin, who says that he hasn’t written because he ...
...s many good things about Bernard’s work, and Bernard says many good things about Gauguin’s work.
...he hope of living in a studio of our own with Gauguin, I’d like to do a decoration for the studio....
I’m very glad that Gauguin is well. I’m beginning to like the south more and more.
Gauguin said that Bernard had made an album of croquis of mine, and that he’d shown it to him.
667 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 21 or Wednesday, 22 August 1888.
in note 1:
For Gauguin’s Among the mangoes, see letter 612, n. 1.
in translation:
.... Next year, when I’m living with my friend Gauguin, it’s not exactly impossible that it might b...
...u think of the painting of those negresses by Gauguin that Theo has? I could imagine that you’ll u...
...ain in my life. We’ll do that sometime when Gauguin’s here. But I’ll stay here in Arles until ...
668 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 23 or Friday, 24 August 1888.
in translation:
... do; not only do we not sell, as you see with Gauguin, we’d like to borrow against paintings done ...
...n’t the ones who represent decadence today. Gauguin and Bernard are now talking about doing ‘chi...
669 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 26 August 1888.
in translation:
... refrain from setting ourselves up like that, Gauguin and I could drag on from year to year in small...
...n the Borinage, and if he’s still here when Gauguin comes, not impossible then that we’ll ask hi...
670 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, on or about Sunday, 26 August 1888.
in translation:
When friend Gauguin’s here, and we go to Marseille, I firmly intend to walk there on the Canebière...
672 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 1 September 1888.
in translation:
...he month. That way, supposing that our friend Gauguin arrived, we wouldn’t have a very long lease ...
...e thoroughly discouraged, thinking about what Gauguin will say about this part of the country in the...
And so I very often feel despondent. But Gauguin and so many others are in exactly the same position,...
...y to fill it. And what could there be against Gauguin’s coming to live with you? That way he could...
RM16 Crossed-out, unsent fragment of a letter to Paul Gauguin. The verso contains the sketch enclosed with letter 693 to Eugène Boch. Arles, probably September or October 1888.
in note 1:
...is is probably a response to a remark made by Gauguin in his letter to Van Gogh of about 26 Septembe...
in translation:
My dear friend,
673 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 3 September 1888.
in note 16:
...ience and furnishing of the rooms: walnut for Gauguin’s room, and oak and deal for his own. See ex...
in translation:
... a kind of post in the coal-fields. That then Gauguin and he and I, in cases where the importance of...
... come back to the same calculation, that with Gauguin I’ll spend no more than on my own, and that ...
674 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 4 September 1888.
in translation:
Neither Gauguin nor Bernard has written to me again. I believe that Gauguin doesn’t give a damn, se...
Of course, we can remain friends with Gauguin all the same, but I see all too clearly that his attent...
As for Gauguin, he’s perhaps letting himself drift with the current without thinking about the futu...
...ip. Whereas at present we’re held to it. If Gauguin finds enough to live on as it is, have we the ...
675 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Pont-Aven, on or about Saturday, 8 September 1888.
in note 2:
See Van Uitert 1983, pp. 13-16, for Gauguin’s symbolist art theory of emotion, based on Swedenborg ...
in note 1:
Gauguin must be replying here to the letter Van Gogh said he had written in letter 676 of 8 September...
in translation:
Paul Gauguin
676 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 8 September 1888.
in translation:
I’ve written to Gauguin and to Bernard this week, but I didn’t talk about anything but paintings,...
677 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 September 1888.
in note 8:
...we learn from the rest of the letter, he intended the last two no. 30 canvases for Gauguin’s room.
in note 5:
... to match his ideas about the temperaments of Gauguin and himself. See Juleke van Lindert and Evert ...
in translation:
... of the beds, and I bought two palliasses. If Gauguin or somebody else were to come, there you are, ...
...om where you’ll stay then, or which will be Gauguin’s if Gauguin comes, will have a decoration o...
678 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 9 and about Friday, 14 September 1888.
in note 3:
... vase (F 454 / JH 1562), no. 30 canvases, for Gauguin’s room. See letters 677 and 743. Later he ad...
679 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 10 September 1888.
in note 8:
...the hope of making him favourably disposed towards buying a work from Gauguin. See letter 652, n. 3.
in note 7:
For Gauguin’s family see letter 625, n. 22.
in note 2:
Gauguin was staying in the boarding house run by Mrs Gloanec in Pont-Aven; see letter 581, n. 5.
in note 1:
The letter from Gauguin is letter 675; the letter from Bernard has not survived (it was not sent on t...
in translation:
Enclosed herewith letter from Gauguin, which arrived at the same time as a letter from Bernard. At la...
Unless Gauguin, sharing absolutely everything, were to give you the whole of his work. In such a way ...
...ch a noise on the subject of this affair with Gauguin? If he comes with the two of us he’ll do wel...
Only it’s already complete enough that if Gauguin were to drop in here unexpectedly there would be ...
Gauguin is married, and it’s very important to be aware beforehand that in the long run it’s not ...
If all goes well for Gauguin, you’ll see at this point that he’ll go back to his wife and childre...
... by the way — negatively as far as buying a Gauguin is concerned, but he invites me to spend some ...
680 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 11 September 1888.
in note 4:
In this letter to Gauguin and Bernard, which has not survived, Van Gogh had suggested that the two sh...
in translation:
When Gauguin comes to work with me, and when for his part he shows himself a little bit generous as f...
... however, I wouldn’t mention it myself. But Gauguin will have to be loyal, but seeing that the arr...
I don’t blame him for it; only if G. doesn’t lose sight of his interest, it’s only right that y...
... now it’s a good opportunity for you to ask Gauguin bluntly when he writes to you, are you coming ...
...st regain his freedom of action. My letter to Gauguin has gone off; I asked them for an exchange if ...
...e south two or three times a year. But — if Gauguin came and if it was fairly well known that we w...
...�m very pleased to have finished my letter to Gauguin without saying that it bewilders me somewhat t...
...nard says that it makes him suffer to see how Gauguin is often prevented from doing what he can, aft...
682 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in note 14:
For Gauguin’s plan see letter 623.
in note 10:
From 1872 to 1880 Gauguin had worked as a stockbroker for various banks and financial institutions in...
in translation:
...hat of the north. And I don’t doubt that if Gauguin came, he would love this part of the country; ...
...� whim — but then, perhaps it’s also that Gauguin is sending him to me as a substitute, and woul...
Bernard’s letter speaks of Gauguin with great respect and sympathy, and I’m convinced that they h...
Whether Gauguin comes or not, he’ll still be one of our friends, and if he doesn’t come now he’...
...nting a month immediately, as we’ve offered Gauguin. And isn’t Bernard, who has clearly talked a...
I can’t blame Gauguin — speculator, stockbroker — if he wishes to risk something in business, o...
The letter that Gauguin will send you shortly will, I’m inclined to believe, clear the matter up.
...t to emphasize this, that it seems to me that Gauguin, by giving you alone his paintings on deposit,...
...ard wished to come here, it wouldn’t be on the same conditions as Gauguin — it would seem to me.
If Gauguin doesn’t come, he’ll succeed all the same, but he won’t succeed through his contrivan...
...ng of, that it will be necessary to have with Gauguin, it’s solely because we already made our pos...
683 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 18 September 1888.
in note 14:
... is known about a quarrel between Bernard and Gauguin in the winter of 1887-1888. The two artists ha...
in translation:
...Bernard. His letter is full of veneration for Gauguin’s talent — he says that he finds him so gr...
But he said that he daren’t do Gauguin, as I’d asked him, because he feels too shy with Gauguin. ...
684 To Emile Bernard. Arles, between Wednesday, 19 and Tuesday, 25 September 1888.
in note 7:
Van Gogh is referring to Gauguin’s stay in tropical Martinique between May and October 1887.
in note 6:
...his passage reflects the ideas of Bernard and Gauguin, who were constantly urging Van Gogh to work f...
in note 3:
...eo not to offer Bernard, who was perhaps thinking of taking Gauguin’s place, any sort of contract.
in note 1:
A letter from Van Gogh to Gauguin and Bernard, written between the preceding letter and this one, has...
in translation:
...le is to hear you say, ‘Oh, no way of doing Gauguin’s portrait!’ Why no way? That’s all rubb...
So I really hope to do your portrait and Gauguin’s myself one day, the first time we get together. ...
...to be able to fit someone in if necessary. If Gauguin comes, however. He still hasn’t categoricall...
...will delight you and make you a great artist; Gauguin himself owes his superiority to the south. I�...
685 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 21 September 1888.
in translation:
In the other one — Gauguin’s or another lodger’s — we’ll still need a dressing-table and a ...
686 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 23 or Monday, 24 September 1888.
in note 2:
...f 17 September 1858. It emerges from a letter Gauguin wrote to Schuffenecker on 22 December 1888 tha...
687 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 25 September 1888.
in translation:
I wrote to him that, Gauguin not having stated categorically whether he’ll come or not come, I coul...
...s at present. Unless, though, we were to make savings eating at the studio, with or without Gauguin.
If in the next few days, Gauguin writes to you categorically, either to you or to me, we could still ...
688 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Pont-Aven, on or about Wednesday, 26 September 1888.
in note 5:
...with letter 693 to Eugène Boch (RM16); the words were addressed to Gauguin. See Jansen et al. 2000.
in note 3:
...s far as we know, Van Gogh had not written to Gauguin since about 11 September (see n. 1 above). Gau...
in note 2:
Paul Gauguin, The vision after the sermon, 1888 (W308/W245) (Edinburgh, National Galleries of Scotlan...
in note 1:
Vincent had written to Gauguin shortly before 11 September, as emerges from letter 680 to Theo.
in translation:
P. Gauguin
689 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 26 September 1888.
in note 15:
Laval had been with Gauguin in Pont-Aven since July 1888. They had been together on Martinique: lette...
in translation:
...gnac, who’s a good worker, also has enough, Gauguin too, and Guillaumin. So I’d like, myself, to...
Have you any news of Gauguin? I expect a letter from Bernard at any moment, which will follow the cro...
Gauguin must have another partnership in mind; I’ve felt that for weeks and yet more weeks.
... that we mustn’t say anything unpleasant to Gauguin if he were to change his mind, and take the th...
...he furnishing, if I’d known in advance that Gauguin wasn’t coming, I’d still have wanted to ha...
690 To Emile Bernard. Arles, between Thursday, 27 September and Monday, 1 October 1888.
in translation:
... of that. But I have no doubt that everything Gauguin tells you about the prices down here is correc...
...nt, I’d like you to come enormously, and if Gauguin comes too, all that will be left for us to reg...
... myself a better body than the one I have. If Gauguin and I are here, as is probable, together — t...
691 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 29 September 1888.
in note 9:
The letter from Gauguin is 688; Van Gogh’s reply to it is not known. In the surviving fragment of a...
in translation:
...e Japan altogether. How I think of you and of Gauguin and of Bernard, everywhere and at all times! I...
Now I have a letter from Gauguin, who seems very sad and says he’ll definitely come once he’s mad...
...and to expand what exists at present. Lastly, Gauguin says that Laval has found someone who’ll giv...
.... I’ll write to you again and will send you Gauguin’s letter with the reply. Very interesting wh...
...adly, but I’ve thought about it a lot lately, and calm has come to me about the Gauguin business.
All these Gauguins are good stones, and let’s boldly be the dealers in Gauguins.
692 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Pont-Aven, Monday, 1 October 1888.
in note 6:
According to Cooper, Gauguin wrote the little rhyme himself, and he probably made the changes too. Se...
in note 5:
It is quite conceivable that Gauguin is referring here to the discussions about Christ between Van Go...
in note 3:
Gauguin titled his painting ‘les misérables’ and dedicated it ‘to my friend Vincent’ (à l�...
in note 1:
...Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). Ill. 2261; and Paul Gauguin, Self-portrait with portrait of Bernard, ‘...
in translation:
Paul Gauguin
693 To Eugène Boch. Arles, Tuesday, 2 October 1888.
in note 14:
...ve been crossed out, a scrap of a letter to Paul Gauguin that was never sent. See RM16 and Jansen et ...
in translation:
... the house and that I immediately furnished a bedroom for Gauguin as well, or for whoever will come.
694 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
in note 6:
The agreement was that while Gauguin was staying in Arles he would send Theo one painting a month in ...
in note 5:
For Gauguin, Self-portrait with portrait of Bernard, ‘Les misérables’, see letter 692, n. 1.
in note 2:
...n amateur painter who joined the group around Gauguin in Pont-Aven. Van Gogh never met him and did n...
in note 1:
The letter from Gauguin was 692.
in note 16:
...t does not appear from the correspondence that Van Gogh and Gauguin ground their own paint in Arles.
in note 12:
The letters to Gauguin and Bernard are 695 and 696.
in translation:
...erewith a quite, quite remarkable letter from Gauguin, which I’ll ask you to put aside as being of...
I’m fairly sure that we could count on Gauguin’s staying with us for good, and that there’ll be...
...hout saying that I shan’t do the exchange with G.’s portrait, because I think it’ll be too beau...
... it was wrong, but it’s still the case that Gauguin has given birth to a painting, and Bernard as ...
Do you know that if we have Gauguin, there we’ll be, at the start of a very important affair, which...
...nce whether you stay with the Goupils or not, you’ll stand solidly behind Gauguin and his crowd.
I have to reply to Gauguin and to Bernard this afternoon, and I’m going to tell them that whatever ...
...o and see Thomas all the same, because before Gauguin comes I’d like to buy some more things — t...
...steem to wish to make a certain impression on Gauguin with my work. I can’t help wishing to work o...
Gauguin’s fare, then. We’d have to add it on top. But if Thomas isn’t willing to act a little g...
...plete, and such that it’s a setting worthy of Gauguin, the artist, who’s going to be its head.
I wouldn’t disapprove in the very least if Gauguin gave you a monopoly in his work, and if right aw...
If Gauguin gives the monopoly, and does so both officially, as you’re with the Goupils, and in priv...
But the more Gauguin feels that by joining us he’ll have the position of head of a studio, the soon...
...in fact come, it won’t be me but it will be Gauguin who’ll be the head of the studio. As far as ...
...ter is once again full of the conviction that Gauguin is a truly great master, and an absolutely sup...
695 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
in note 3:
Gauguin left Paris for Brittany on 26 January. See Merlhès 1989, p. 61.
in note 2:
For Gauguin, Self-portrait with portrait of Bernard, ‘Les misérables’, see letter 692, n. 1.
in note 1:
The letter from Gauguin was 692; Vincent sent it on to Theo with letter 694.
in translation:
My dear Gauguin,
... the old poet of this place (or rather, of Avignon), Petrarch, and of its new poet — Paul Gauguin.
696 To Emile Bernard. Arles, Wednesday, 3 October 1888.
in note 17:
...llard edition: ‘Allusion to a caricature by Gauguin that showed Vincent sitting on the tip of a ro...
in translation:
...work. And that way you would stay longer with Gauguin, and leaving to do your service, you would lea...
... you have a strong wish to come to Arles with Gauguin and me, be sure to tell your father that wit...
...to support it, you have only to continue with Gauguin and me. It’s in progress, let’s not talk a...
697 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 4 or Friday, 5 October 1888.
in note 6:
Van Gogh means paintings of negresses that Gauguin did during his stay on Martinique between May and ...
in note 3:
Van Gogh had sent letter 692 from Gauguin to Theo for him to read; see letter 694.
in note 2:
See letter 692, n. 1, for Gauguin, Self-portrait with portrait of Bernard, ‘Les misérables’, ...
in note 1:
Theo had sent Gauguin 300 francs as the proceeds of the sale of several ceramic pieces, as we learn f...
in note 14:
...ch Van Gogh enclosed with the present letter, Gauguin compared his self-portrait with the style of P...
in translation:
...very much for your letter. How happy I am for Gauguin; I won’t search for expressions to tell you ...
Now I’ve just received Gauguin’s portrait done by himself and Bernard’s portrait by Bernard, wi...
The Gauguin is immediately remarkable, but I myself like Bernard’s very much, it’s nothing but an...
My portrait that I’m sending to Gauguin in exchange stands up beside it, I’m sure. I wrote to Gau...
And when I put Gauguin’s conception and mine side by side, my portrait is equally serious but less ...
...happy in the same way as Sensier, if you have Gauguin, and I sincerely hope that he’ll go for it. ...
Gauguin looks ill and tormented in his portrait!! Look, that won’t last, and it will be very curiou...
...you’ll also see the portrait of me that I’m sending to Gauguin, because he’ll keep it, I hope.
... eyes in the Japanese manner. Write to me soon, and the best of luck. How happy old Gauguin will be!
As for what Gauguin says about ‘Persian’, it’s true, I don’t believe it would be shocking, pl...
...s and Egyptians. For all that, I’m not saying that Gauguin’s wrong to work in the Persian style.
698 To Emile Bernard. Arles, on or about Friday, 5 October 1888.
in note 1:
See letter 692, n. 1, for Gauguin, Self-portrait with portrait of Bernard, ‘Les misérables’, ...
in note 10:
...ew of a harbour, in the estate, but it is dedicated ‘à l’ami Gauguin’ (to my friend Gauguin).
in translation:
The consignment Gauguin and you sent arrived at almost the same time as my studies went off. I was de...
...ies — and you might certainly be among them, as well as Gauguin and perhaps myself when I’m old.
699 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 8 October 1888.
in note 9:
In letter 697 Van Gogh had already said of Gauguin’s portrait: ‘the flesh in the shadows is lugub...
in note 8:
... also Arrangement). See letter 692, n. 1, for Gauguin, Self-portrait with portrait of Bernard, ‘Le...
in note 18:
This must have been a letter for Gauguin; see also Arrangement.
in translation:
I too have all my attention on Gauguin at the moment.
... now doing studies which I’ll ask him to come and see when we send them with some Gauguins.Gauguin
... as it is. You’ll see in it what I think of Gauguin’s portrait. Too dark, too sad. I’m not say...
And as for G., he has nothing more pressing nor better to do than to join me. However, I dare believe...
Don’t believe that I’m exaggerating about the Gauguin portrait, nor about Gauguin himself.
One day you’ll see the two portraits of G. and of Bernard. And you’ll compare with the negresses....
...I’ve been writing these past few days about Gauguin’s portrait. I’m sending it to you because ...
701 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 10 or Thursday, 11 October 1888.
in note 8:
Van Gogh wrote ‘P.S. to Gauguin’ so that Theo would understand that this remark belonged with the...
in note 3:
The ‘copy’ of the letter to Gauguin that Van Gogh includes here (ll. 55 ff.) has been so drastica...
in note 1:
The letter from Gauguin to Vincent has not survived; he had also written to tell Theo that he would t...
in translation:
Letter from Gauguin, to say that he pays me a heap of undeserved compliments, and to add that he won�...
...about buying this piece of furniture because I want to be ready in case Gauguin were to come sooner.
...ur own home, and it gives you ideas for work. Gauguin writes very amiably, but he doesn’t actually...
Reply to Gauguin’s letter
My dear Gauguin.
P.S. to Gauguin:
You’ll perhaps find the P.S. to Gauguin too blunt, but it’s up to him to say yes or no. HE IS ill...
702 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 10 or Thursday, 11 October 1888.
in note 5:
See letter 625, n. 22, for Gauguin’s family.
in translation:
...t least to our peace of mind, above all. Once Gauguin’s here he’ll feel the same thing — and h...
...ne — the least would have been 35. And when Gauguin comes, he would in any case have to have somet...
What Gauguin will do, what I’ll also do myself, will be in keeping with that fine oeuvre by Monti...
703 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 13 October 1888.
in note 7:
Vincent had sent Theo a ‘copy’ of his letter to Gauguin on 10 October (see letter 701).
in translation:
I wrote to Gauguin again the day before yesterday, to say once again that he would probably recover m...
704 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 15 October 1888.
in note 6:
...of the batch of paintings sent to Bernard and Gauguin, by ‘what I had done in figure painting’ V...
in note 1:
Gauguin had told Theo on 7 or 8 October that he would give Bernard’s mother, who was going from Pon...
...8) that he had received twenty paintings from Gauguin altogether; they included winter and spring la...
in note 12:
See letter 692, n. 1, for Gauguin’s Self-portrait with portrait of Bernard, ‘Les misérables�...
in note 11:
...hing along the lines of the exchange of self-portraits with Gauguin and Bernard. Nothing came of it.
in translation:
Letter from Gauguin, who tells me that he’s sent you a consignment of paintings and studies.
Gauguin has my portrait, and Bernard says that he’d like to have one like it, although he already h...
I had told Gauguin that the reason I had urged him to make an exchange of portraits was because I bel...
If Gauguin and I write an article in one of the papers here, that will be enough to make contact. Han...
705 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 16 October 1888.
in note 1:
...his painting after he did the sketch; in letter 706 to Gauguin he sketched it in its finished state.
706 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Wednesday, 17 October 1888.
in note 4:
...ve been Van Gogh’s reply to the letter from Gauguin referred to in letter 704. He also wrote about...
in note 2:
Gauguin was still in poor health; see letter 701, n. 1.
in note 1:
Gauguin was to arrive in Arles on Tuesday, 23 October 1888; see letter 712, n. 2. This must be a refe...
in translation:
My dear Gauguin,
707 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 17 October 1888.
in note 3:
Gauguin may have written this in the (now lost) letter that Van Gogh had just received, but Van Gogh ...
in translation:
Gauguin writes that he’s already sent his trunk and promises to come around the 20th of this month,...
...t Pissarro said to be true, and moreover what Gauguin wrote me, the same thing. The simplicity, the ...
...notes than his would in thousands, and that nevertheless we were working for Gauguin even without R.
708 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Friday, 19 October 1888.
in translation:
...with your eyes; where does that come from? So Gauguin’s coming; that will make a big change in you...
709 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 21 October 1888.
in note 3:
Gauguin had said that he would be setting out for Arles on 20 October (letter 706).
in translation:
... is costing me 25 francs for installation. If Gauguin and I work every evening for a fortnight, won�...
...kes the fourth canvas of the ‘poet’s garden’, which is the decoration for Gauguin’s bedroom.
...d have had a strong desire to be able to put even 200 more into the work before Gauguin’s arrival.
710 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 22 October 1888.
in translation:
...ar brother, if I could do such a thing, or if Gauguin and I together could do such things that Seura...
... say... Ah well, if we were to join together, Gauguin and I should each also be capable of a nominal...
... partnership. First I must try to get to know Gauguin better. With whom one can’t go wrong, no mat...
...rong we’d have to have deliberations as soon as Gauguin arrived, which I hope will be any day now.
711 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 23 October 1888.
in note 3:
Paul Gauguin, Breton women chatting, 1886 (W 237/ W 201) (Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen...
in note 2:
... the market for modern paintings in Brussels. Gauguin wrote to him on 27 October 1888: ‘I hope tha...
in note 1:
...haustion and asked for extra money because of Gauguin’s impending arrival (in his last letter (710...
in translation:
...ord. What will please you is that I’ve sold Gauguin’s large painting, the Breton women, which ha...
...t’s wrong with you isn’t serious and that you won’t lose heart, even if Gauguin didn’t come.
712 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Thursday, 25 October 1888.
in note 3:
Van Gogh and Gauguin prepared the jute Gauguin had bought themselves (see letter 716, n. 8). See exhi...
in note 2:
Gauguin arrived at four in the morning on Tuesday, 23 October. It had taken him from Sunday afternoon...
in translation:
...-franc note. As you learned from my telegram, Gauguin arrived in good health. He even gave me the im...
...’t wait nor will fall on your shoulders alone. G.will certainly write to you today. He’s very, ve...
...ast, we’ll use less expensive colours, both Gauguin and I. As for canvas, we’ll also prepare it ...
...light feeling that I was going to be ill, but Gauguin’s arrival has so taken my mind off it that I...
Gauguin has brought a magnificent canvas that he exchanged with Bernard, Breton women in a green mead...
Soon, when Gauguin writes to you, I’ll add another letter to his.
Of course, I don’t know in advance what Gauguin will say about this part of the world and about our...
713 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 27 October 1888.
in note 3:
See letter 704, n. 1, for the batch of paintings Gauguin sent from Pont-Aven.
in note 2:
Theo had sent Gauguin 500 francs from the sale of his painting Breton women chatting; see letter 711,...
in note 1:
...ctober; he had sent the telegram straight away to tell Theo about Gauguin’s arrival on 23 October.
in translation:
... order, because although it’s possible that Gauguin has received the letter that I addressed to Po...
I’m very, very pleased that Gauguin is with you, because I was afraid he’d found some obstacle to...
...have a crust of bread to live on. I hope that Gauguin’s company will be pleasant for you and that ...
More soon, and good handshake, to Gauguin as well.
714 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 27 or Sunday, 28 October 1888.
in note 2:
See letter 616, n. 2, for Gauguin’s seamanship.
in translation:
I did know that Gauguin had travelled, but I didn’t know he was a real seaman; he’s been through ...
What Gauguin has to say about the tropics seems wonderful to me. There, certainly, is the future of...
715 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 29 October 1888.
in note 5:
On 27 October Gauguin had told Theo that he wanted to use the first few days ‘to acquaint myself wi...
in translation:
...han push to complete what we started, to urge Gauguin to join us, and on the other hand, as you may ...
Now that Gauguin has come, the goal has been achieved for the time being. By combining our expenses, ...
...rrible feeling of anxiety for you, because if Gauguin hadn’t had the same ideas, I would have caus...
But Gauguin is astonishing as a man; he doesn’t get worked up, and he’ll wait here, very calmly, ...
...dinary sum per month of 150 (and the same for Gauguin). Which in any case reduces my personal spendi...
... closing I dare hope that in 6 months’ time Gauguin, you and I, we’ll see that we’ve founded a...
I don’t yet know what Gauguin thinks about my decoration in general; I only know that there are som...
Gauguin has already just about found his Arlésienne, and I could wish that I too had got as far.
716 Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin to Emile Bernard. Arles, Thursday, 1 or Friday, 2 November 1888.
in note 8:
Soon after arriving in Arles, Gauguin bought 20 metres of ‘very strong canvas’, as Vincent inform...
in note 7:
Gauguin had lived with Laval on Martinique from May to November 1887; in Arles he was making plans to...
in note 6:
... from his Self-portrait, which he traded with Gauguin – dated from September: the portraits of Eug...
in note 4:
Paul Gauguin, Night café, Arles, 1888 (W318/W305) (Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts). Ill. ...
in translation:
Gauguin interests me greatly as a man — greatly. For a long time it has seemed to me that in our fi...
...ture with the instincts of a wild beast. With Gauguin, blood and sex have the edge over ambition. Bu...
...ntually go there often to work. At the moment Gauguin has a canvas in progress of the same night c...
I’ll leave a page for Gauguin, who will probably also write to you, and I shake your hand firmly in...
Continued by Paul GauguinPaul Gauguin
Paul Gauguin
717 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 3 November 1888.
in note 4:
...lyscamps (‘Leaf-fall’) (F 487 / JH 1621). Gauguin had written to Bernard that the canvases were ...
in note 3:
For Gauguin’s Night café, Arles, see letter 716, n. 4. Van Gogh’s painting of the Café de la Ga...
in note 2:
Paul Gauguin, Human miseries, 1888 (W317/W304) (Copenhagen, Ordrupgaard Sammlungen). Ill. 2242.
in note 1:
Regarding the batch of paintings Gauguin sent to Theo from Pont-Aven, see letter 704, n. 1.
in translation:
Gauguin and I thank you very much for sending 100 francs, and also for your letter.
Gauguin is very happy that you like his consignment from Brittany, and that others who’ve seen it h...
...’ve done two canvases of a leaf-fall, which Gauguin liked I think, and am now working on a vineyar...
Gauguin has bought a chest of drawers for the house, various household utensils and 20 metres of very...
...e Haan and Isaäcson. If ever they came here, Gauguin would certainly say to them: go to Java and do...
Gauguin and I are going to dine at home today, and we feel sure and certain that we will manage this ...
718 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 10 November 1888.
in note 8:
Van Gogh is mistaken: Gauguin did say that he would come around the 20th (see letter 706), but he fin...
in note 7:
...ng ‘some excursions in the brothels’ with Gauguin (letter 716). See also letter 698, n. 6. Cf. a...
in note 6:
Gauguin had sent Theo a number of his Pont-Aven paintings; see letter 704, n. 1.
in note 5:
For Gauguin’s Among the mangoes, which Theo had indeed purchased for 400 francs, see letter 612, n....
in note 4:
For Gauguin’s Human miseries, see letter 717, n. 2.
in note 2:
Gauguin also refused the invitation to exhibit at the Revue Indépendante. He explained his decision ...
in note 1:
...he would be required to surrender a painting, Gauguin’s negative attitude to the exhibition no dou...
in note 15:
A letter from Gauguin to Bernard reveals that this must have been an order for paints: ‘I’m going...
in note 12:
For Gauguin’s Night café, Arles, see letter 716, n. 4.
in note 11:
...edition of Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème that Gauguin received from Milliet had been published in 18...
in translation:
...épendante, I make so bold as to believe that Gauguin is of the same opinion. In any case he doesn�...
What will please you is that Gauguin has finished his canvas of the women picking grapes, it’s as f...
Gauguin came here on 20 Oct., so we must reckon that he received 50 francs from you last month.
...r troubling to take the canvases to Paris and Gauguin gave him a little drawing in exchange for an i...
Gauguin has also almost finished his night café. He makes a really interesting friend — I must tel...
Do you know that Gauguin is partly the inventor of the white frame? But the frame made from four stri...
Gauguin sends his warm regards, and asks you to keep back from the price of the first painting you se...
719 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 11 or Monday, 12 November 1888.
in note 7:
...ard’s painting Breton women in the meadow, which Gauguin had taken to Arles, see letter 712, n. 4.
in note 6:
...‘magnificent pot with 2 rats’ heads’ by Gauguin is lost; it was reproduced in Still life with ...
in note 5:
Paul Gauguin, Woman with pigs (In the full heat of the day), 1888 (W320/W301) (private collection). I...
in translation:
Gauguin’s working on a very original nude woman in some hay with some pigs. It promises to be very ...
If you could ever get a fine Bernard I strongly urge you to do so. Gauguin has a superb one.
Gauguin gives me courage to imagine, and the things of the imagination do indeed take on a more myste...
720 To Willemien van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 12 November 1888.
in note 5:
..., which measures 73.5 x 92.5 cm. The ideas of Gauguin, who urged Van Gogh to work from imagination a...
in translation:
...hat I haven’t yet told you that my friend Paul Gauguin, an Impressionist painter, now lives with me...
721 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 19 November 1888.
in note 8:
The last two canvases by Gauguin are the above-mentioned Human miseries and Woman with pigs (n. 2).
in note 7:
Gauguin, by contrast, wrote to Bernard in the second half of November 1888 about his relations with V...
in note 6:
...ck and Zegers assume that this ‘can only be Gauguin, possibly along with anyone else who may have ...
in note 2:
For Gauguin’s Human miseries, see letter 717, n. 2, and for Woman with pigs, see letter 719, n. 5.
in note 1:
Paul Gauguin, Breton girls dancing, 1888 (W296/W251) (Washington, National Gallery of Art, lent by Mr...
in note 19:
F 498 and F 499 are painted on the jute that Gauguin had bought; see exhib. cat. Chicago 2001, pp. 35...
in note 16:
Gauguin’s remark undoubtedly referred to the recent paintings of sunflowers from Arles, particularl...
in note 15:
...k, The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Ill. 300. Gauguin could have seen the painting at the Monet exhi...
in note 12:
Gauguin had five children; see letter 625, n. 22.
in note 11:
On or about 13 November 1888, Gauguin wrote the following to Schuffenecker about Guillaumin’s lette...
in translation:
Gauguin’s canvas, Breton Children, has arrived, and he’s altered it very, very well.
...woman with the pigs. The reason for this is that G. is beginning to overcome his liver or stomach tro...
Gauguin, in spite of himself and in spite of me, has proved to me a little that it was time for me to...
... Mauve, tell her a whole heap of things about Gauguin &c. &c., send her some croquis, and indirectly...
... I rather regret having the room full of canvases and having nothing to send when Gauguin sends his.
The thing is, regarding the impasto things, Gauguin has told me how to get rid of the grease by washi...
...ormous good to have company as intelligent as Gauguin and to see him work. You’ll see that certain...
... hope that we’ll always remain friends with Gauguin, and in business with him, and if he succeeds ...
Guillaumin has written to Gauguin, he seems very hard up but must have done some fine work. He has a ...
Gauguin was telling me the other day — that he’d seen a painting by Claude Monet of sunflowers in...
...y I do a painting of figures like the flowers Gauguin was talking about I’ll have a position as ...
...w on red tiles against a wall (daytime). Then Gauguin’s armchair, red and green, night effect, on ...
722 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Wednesday, 21 November 1888.
in note 9:
In this period Gauguin made two paintings of washerwomen: Washerwomen on the bank of a canal, 1888 (W...
in note 1:
On 13 November Theo informed Gauguin that he had sold two of his canvases. See Correspondance Gauguin...
in translation:
...0-franc note it contained. Am very happy that Gauguin’s success as regards selling continues. If i...
...dies that Bernard brought back from Brittany? Gauguin has told me many things about them. He himself...
...t forget that either at New Year or in March, Gauguin will have to be repaid the money he may have l...
Gauguin’s working on a very beautiful painting of washerwomen, and also a big still life of an oran...
...ying alone in the apartment, just as I too am very pleased to have such good company as Gauguin’s.
723 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Saturday, 1 December 1888.
in note 9:
...beginning of June, Theo had sent 50 francs to Gauguin, who had promised him work in return (see lett...
in note 8:
For Gauguin’s Washerwomen on the bank of a canal and Washerwomen, see letter 722, n. 9.
in note 7:
...lso thought to have been among the landscapes Gauguin was working on in early December. See exhib. c...
in note 6:
Paul Gauguin, Van Gogh painting sunflowers, 1888 (W326/W296) (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). Ill. 115.
in note 13:
Gauguin wanted to travel to Copenhagen to visit his wife, Mette, and their five children, as emerges ...
in note 12:
...s’ society Les Vingt, see letter 580, n. 6. Gauguin’s letter to Octave Maus, in which he accepts...
in translation:
Gauguin works a lot – I very much like a still life with yellow background and foreground. He’s w...
You should receive two of Gauguin’s drawings in return for 50 francs which you sent him in Brittany...
You know that Gauguin has been invited to exhibit at the Vingtistes. His imagination is already leadi...
Gauguin will write to you tomorrow, he’s waiting for a reply to his letter and sends his warm regar...
724 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 11 December 1888.
in note 1:
Gauguin wrote to Theo: ‘I should be obliged if you would send me part of the money for the painting...
in translation:
I myself think that Gauguin had become a little disheartened by the good town of Arles, by the little...
Gauguin is very strong, very creative, but precisely because of that he must have peace.
725 Paul Eugène Milliet to Vincent van Gogh. Guelma, Tuesday, 11 December 1888.
in translation:
How are you my dear friend, and how is Gauguin finding life down there? Is he getting used to it?
...er’s excellent memory. Hearty handshake for Gauguin, and believe me, my dear friend, your entirely...
726 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 17 or Tuesday, 18 December 1888.
in note 1:
Gauguin had visited the Musée Fabre in 1884 and had written about it in his Avant et après: ‘I ma...
in note 19:
...n, 1821 (Montpellier, Musée Fabre). Ill. 72. Gauguin had made the painting The mulatto woman, copy ...
in note 16:
Gauguin included the last two lines in an adapted version in his letter to Schuffenecker of about 20 ...
in translation:
Yesterday Gauguin and I went to Montpellier to see the museum there, and especially the Bruyas room �...
...oixs there, a study of a mulatto woman (which Gauguin once copied), the Odalisques, Daniel in the li...
Gauguin and I talk a lot about Delacroix, Rembrandt &c.
...n by Rembrandt at the La Caze gallery, I told Gauguin that, for me, I saw in it a certain family or ...
Gauguin said to me this morning, when I asked him how he felt: ‘that he could feel his old self com...
Say so to Degas, that Gauguin and I have been to see the portrait of Bruyas by Delacroix at Montpelli...
On behalf of Gauguin as well as myself, a good, hearty handshake to you all.
If you think that Gauguin or I have a facility in our work, the work isn’t always accommodating. An...
in note 29:
...ember 1888: ‘Degas is terribly pleased with Gauguin’s work. So much so that he even wants to go ...
in note 28:
Judging by this passage, Gauguin’s recovery was accompanied by an improvement in the atmosphere in ...
in note 26:
...considered a Rembrandt, see letter 536, n. 9. Gauguin, too, later referred to the painting in Avant ...
728 Vincent van Gogh and Félix Rey to Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 2 January 1889.
in note 1:
... had him admitted to hospital. On 24 December Gauguin sent a telegram to Theo, who immediately took ...
in translation:
Now let’s talk about our friend Gauguin, did I terrify him? In short, why doesn’t he give me a si...
...t home in Paris than here. Tell Gauguin to write to me, and that I’m still thinking of him.Gauguin
... perfect. As for me, I’m content to remain as I am. Once again, good handshake to you and Gauguin.
729 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 4 January 1889.
in note 4:
Gauguin had bought ‘a chest of drawers’ and ‘various household utensils’ for the Yellow House...
in translation:
I hope that Gauguin will also completely reassure you a little regarding painting matters.
...rectly to me, 2, place Lamartine. I’ll send Gauguin the paintings of his that are still at the hou...
730 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Friday, 4 January 1889.
in translation:
My dear friend Gauguin
732 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 7 January 1889.
in note 9:
Gauguin was planning to visit his wife and children in Copenhagen; see letter 723, n. 13.
in note 3:
Van Gogh and Gauguin had visited the Musée Fabre in Montpellier in mid-December. For Delacroix’s A...
in note 10:
Gauguin had been invited to display his work at the sixth exhibition of the artists’ society Les Vi...
in translation:
...oix and the whole museum at Montpellier where Gauguin took me. How people have already worked in the...
If you think it all right — now that Gauguin has left — we’ll go back to 150 francs a month. ...
...w that things are going well for you. What is Gauguin doing? As his family are in the north, and as ...
734 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, between Tuesday, 8 and Wednesday, 16 January 1889.
in note 9:
It is possible that with ‘clefs’ Gauguin meant the wedges used to tension a stretcher, but he cou...
in note 8:
...er the business of Mrs Latouche; in any case, Gauguin had had canvases relined there in 1883. See le...
in note 7:
Regarding Gauguin’s Human miseries, see letter 717, n. 2.
in note 5:
On 5 January Gauguin had rented a studio at 16 rue Saint-Gothard. See exhib. cat. Washington 1988, p....
in note 1:
... 2001, p. 21. It emerges from letter 736 that Gauguin wanted this canvas; he must have asked for it ...
in note 10:
Gauguin practised fencing and had given fencing lessons in Pont-Aven. In Avant et après he writes in...
in translation:
Paul Gauguin
735 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 9 January 1889.
in note 19:
For Gauguin’s Self-portrait with a portrait of Bernard, ‘Les misérables’, see letter 692, n. 1...
in note 18:
Paul Gauguin, Self-portrait dedicated to Charles Laval (later to Eugène Carrière), 1888 (W384) (Was...
in note 17:
Because Van Gogh also speaks here of Gauguin’s self-portrait, he is likely referring to his own Sel...
in note 13:
Theo must have written that Gauguin had spoken well of Vincent’s Arles work to Degas. This passage ...
in translation:
What you tell me about Gauguin gives me enormous pleasure, that’s to say that he hasn’t abandoned...
The mistake in pal Gauguin’s calculations was, in my opinion, that he’s a little too accustomed t...
Gauguin and I had talked about Degas before, and I pointed out to Gauguin that Degas had said this:.....
...women of Arles, and that he mustn’t believe Gauguin if Gauguin says good things too soon about m...
Have you seen the portrait of me that Gauguin has, and have you seen the portrait that Gauguin did of...
If you were to compare this portrait which Gauguin did of himself then with the one I still have of h...
...ad vaguely hoped to see them here one day had Gauguin himself stayed longer with me, and with a view...
736 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 17 January 1889.
in note 9:
Gauguin had telegraphed Theo that he should come to Arles, because Vincent had been admitted to hospi...
in note 19:
Gauguin later wrote about money matters in Avant et après: ‘From the first month I saw our shared ...
in note 13:
...Sunflowers gone to seed (F 376 / JH 1331) for Gauguin’s On the shore of the lake, Martinique; see ...
in note 12:
This reveals that Gauguin had asked in the missing part of letter 734 for the painting Sunflowers in ...
in note 11:
In Avant et après Gauguin quoted from a letter (no longer extant) which Van Gogh had written to him ...
in note 10:
In a letter written to Van Gogh in June 1888, Gauguin had outlined his plan to start dealing in Impre...
in translation:
...to the expenses occasioned by a telegram from Gauguin which I’ve already reproached him quite form...
Does Gauguin himself claim to have acted brilliantly in this?
I can’t praise you enough for paying Gauguin in such a way that he couldn’t but congratulate hims...
If Gauguin were to examine himself properly in Paris or have himself examined by a specialist doctor,...
How can Gauguin claim to have feared disturbing me by his presence when he would have difficulty deny...
... the same, it will continue to be a pity that Gauguin and I were perhaps too quick to drop the quest...
... the other pink) placed on an empty armchair (Gauguin’s armchair, to be precise), no. 30 canvas in...
...lain a little about the strange phenomenon of Gauguin preferring not to speak to me again while at t...
...ned myself should I lack the strength. But if Gauguin has so much real virtue and such capacities fo...
...rt, and I’m perhaps too sad about them. Has Gauguin ever read Tartarin sur les Alpes, and does he ...
That would teach you to recognize Gauguin pretty well.
...is what we have here, though of another kind, Gauguin has a fine and frank and absolutely complete i...
Happily Gauguin, I and other painters aren’t yet armed with machine guns and other very harmful eng...
...al that I’m very astonished that his friend Gauguin didn’t take a portrait of me which I intende...
in note 26:
Gauguin was planning to visit his wife and children in Copenhagen; see letter 723, n. 13.
in note 25:
Gauguin had made this request in letter 734.
in note 21:
...1886, p. 348. Regarding Van Gogh’s comparison of Gauguin with Bompard, see also Sund 1992, p. 216.
737 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 17 January 1889.
in note 9:
These sketches by Gauguin of the market are not known.
in note 8:
Paul Gauguin, The Schuffenecker family, 1889 (W313) (Paris, Musée d’Orsay). Ill. 103.
in note 7:
Gauguin is referring to his series of ten ‘zincographies’ (1889), which he made after Theo had ur...
in note 6:
Gauguin had been staying with the Schuffenecker family (29 rue Boulard) since his return to Paris. Re...
in note 5:
...and the one about exhibiting in Brussels that Gauguin is reacting to Van Gogh’s letter, which is n...
in note 4:
This ‘unfortunate letter’ was the one Gauguin sent to Bernard’s sister Madeleine in mid-October...
in note 3:
In letter 734 Gauguin had asked Van Gogh to send his fencing masks and gloves. Vincent sent them at t...
in note 2:
...as Le carnet de Paul Gauguin. (Gauguin 1952). Gauguin might also have taken that sketchbook with him...
in note 1:
For the studies Gauguin left behind, see letter 736, n. 12.
in note 10:
Gauguin had been invited to display his work at the sixth exhibition of the artists’ society Les Vi...
in translation:
Paul Gauguin
738 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Saturday, 19 January 1889.
in note 11:
For Gauguin’s The Schuffenecker family, see letter 737, n. 8.
in note 10:
According to Van Gogh, Gauguin was thinking of settling in Brussels and travelling from there to Denm...
in translation:
They’re now going to try, Gauguin and Bernard, to exempt Bernard from military service because of n...
...get to say that yesterday I had a letter from Gauguin, still about the fencing masks and gloves. Ful...
... certain is that I dare believe that at heart Gauguin and I like each other enough as characters to ...
739 To Paul Gauguin. Arles, Monday, 21 January 1889.
in note 7:
Regarding the sending back of Gauguin’s things, see letter 737, n. 3.
in note 5:
... he had had ‘intimate conversations’ with Gauguin about the fishermen of Iceland (see letter 743...
in note 4:
... (F 454 / JH 1562), which had been hanging in Gauguin's room, in order to make an exchange (see lett...
in note 2:
Gauguin was considering returning to Paris around mid-December 1888, but changed his mind and decided...
in note 10:
...�� inside it, was not made by Van Gogh but by Gauguin. The same symbol with the word (written, or ra...
in translation:
My dear friend Gauguin,
740 To Arnold Koning. Arles, on or about Tuesday, 22 January 1889.
in note 6:
...cts of La berceuse. In letter 739 he wrote to Gauguin: ‘As an Impressionist arrangement of colours...
741 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 22 January 1889.
in note 9:
...�new group’ must refer to the painters from Gauguin’s circle, who had stayed behind in Pont-Aven...
in note 8:
...ets on with are slightly afraid of him, which Gauguin’s visit to him did nothing to change, on the...
in note 4:
... vase (F 454 / JH 1562). They were hanging in Gauguin’s room in the Yellow House, and Vincent assu...
in note 12:
Van Gogh and Gauguin had exchanged paintings in November 1887 (see letter 576, n. 2) and in October 1...
in note 11:
Gauguin had set his heart on Sunflowers in a vase (F 454 / JH 1562); see letter 739.
in translation:
You’re right in seeing that Gauguin’s departure is terrible, right because it pushes us back down...
... side, however involuntarily it may be — to Gauguin. But prior to the last days I could see only o...
Gauguin would be pleased to have one of them, and I very much enjoy doing Gauguin quite a big favour....
...e more you look at it. Besides, you know that Gauguin likes them extraordinarily. He said to me abou...
...ill give me pleasure to continue the exchanges with Gauguin, even if sometimes it costs me dear too.
743 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 28 January 1889.
in note 6:
...ormed two triptychs: one for Theo and one for Gauguin. Van Gogh says they number ‘7 or 9’ canvas...
in note 5:
Van Gogh had written this to Gauguin a week earlier. See letter 739.
in note 17:
... report on 27 February 1889 (see letter 750). Gauguin described him in Avant et après as ‘the gen...
in translation:
... you visited I think you must have noticed in Gauguin’s room the two no. 30 canvases of the sunflo...
...e subject of that canvas, I’ve just said to Gauguin that as he and I talked about the Icelandic fi...
...possibility of a relapse would be to see that Gauguin and I didn’t exhaust our brains for nothing ...
Will Gauguin do it? It isn’t necessary. For if it must be done it will be done all on its own.
At the bottom of our hearts good old Gauguin and I understand each other, and if we’re a bit mad, s...
744 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Wednesday, 30 January 1889.
in translation:
...his morning I had a very friendly letter from Gauguin to which I replied without delay. When Roulin ...
I’ll end this letter like the one to Gauguin by telling you that there are indeed still signs of th...
745 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 3 February 1889.
in note 9:
Gauguin would indeed receive a version of La berceuse; see letter 776, n. 4.
in note 8:
The repetitions made for Gauguin were Sunflowers in a vase (F 455 / JH 1668) and Sunflowers in a vase...
in translation:
...Arles is a funny place which for good reasons friend Gauguin calls the filthiest place in the south.
So I would like only, should Gauguin, who has a complete infatuation with my sunflowers, take these t...
...ase, that will prove to our real friends like Gauguin, Guillaumin, Bernard &c. that we’re engaged ...
747 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Monday, 18 February 1889.
in translation:
Besides, Gauguin is like that too, as you were able to observe, and was himself also tired out at the...
...h all the bad things possible about me, about Gauguin, about painting in general, why shouldn’t I...
...you well know, I love Arles so much, although Gauguin is darned right to call it the filthiest town ...
Warm regards to Gauguin, I hope he’s going to write to me, I’ll write to him too.
748 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Monday, 25 February 1889.
in note 8:
For Gauguin’s series of lithographs ‘Suite Volpini’, see letter 737, n. 7.
in note 4:
Mette Gauguin-Gad lived in Copenhagen. Gauguin did in fact receive a version of the Berceuse; see let...
in translation:
...ourier’s letter, which gave me pleasure: if Gauguin wants to make an exchange with you for a versi...
...me the 50 francs immediately. It gives me great pleasure that Gauguin has finished some lithographs.
More than ever I understand the sufferings of Gauguin, who caught the same thing in the tropics, an e...
750 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 19 March 1889.
in translation:
...e necessary as in prison now. Tell him to ask Gauguin for advice, but shake his hand firmly from me....
753 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 29 March 1889.
in translation:
If you were to see Gauguin you could tell him that. And I was thinking of a faded woman, at your plac...
760 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Sunday, 21 April 1889.
in translation:
If you see Gauguin or if you write to him, give him my kind regards.
761 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Wednesday, 24 April 1889.
in note 7:
...irst attack of his illness had put an abrupt end to his collaboration with Gauguin (see letter 728).
765 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 30 April 1889.
in note 36:
Gauguin had asked Van Gogh to send his fencing masks and gloves (see letter 734).
in note 35:
For the studies that Gauguin left behind, see letter 736, n. 12.
in translation:
The crate contains some studies by Gauguin which belong to him, then his two fencing masks and fencin...
in note 29:
...nt F 486 / JH 1620, which had been hanging in Gauguin’s room together with F 487 (see letter 716)....
in note 27:
For Gauguin’s Self-portrait with portrait of Bernard, ‘Les misérables’, see letter 692, n. 1.
767 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Thursday, 2 May 1889.
in note 2:
Regarding these studies left behind by Gauguin, see letter 736, n. 12. Gauguin had asked Van Gogh in ...
in translation:
...ep what appears passable to you. I’ve added Gauguin’s fencing masks and studies, and the Lemonni...
768 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Friday, 3 May 1889.
in translation:
...veral old canvases on that occasion. What’s Gauguin doing, I’m still avoiding writing to him unt...
774 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 21 May 1889.
in note 7:
...se (F 454 / JH 1562), and the repetitions for Gauguin (F 455 / JH 1668 and F 458 / JH 1667). See let...
in note 2:
..., Theo gave two of these, F 506 and F 508, to Gauguin and Bernard (see letter 776); the provenance o...
in note 16:
...ring the first half of April 1889 (FR b1040). Gauguin joined him there at the end of May 1889, after...
in note 15:
After his return to Paris in December 1888, Gauguin produced mainly ceramics. It was not until the su...
in translation:
...ppreciated one day. If we see that Pissarros, Gauguins, Renoirs, Guillaumins don’t sell, one must ...
...g says that he isn’t saleable. Lately I saw Gauguin, who is currently working on some sculpture. H...
776 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 23 May 1889.
in note 6:
...ns of Sunflowers in a vase, which had hung in Gauguin’s room in the Yellow House and were intended...
in note 5:
Van Gogh wanted Gauguin to have the two repetitions: Sunflowers in a vase (F 455 / JH 1668) and Sunfl...
in note 4:
Gauguin did in fact receive a painting of the Berceuse, as revealed by his letter of 29 March 1894 to...
in note 30:
Gauguin was once in the possession of the following paintings by Cézanne: Female nude, before 1870; ...
in translation:
Gauguin, if he’ll accept it, you shall give him a version of the Berceuse that wasn’t mounted on ...
But if Gauguin wants sunflowers it’s only absolutely fair that he gives you something that you like...
...er worthy of it onto these stretching frames. Gauguin must be able to give you the address of a line...
779 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 June 1889.
in note 13:
...oupe Impressionniste et Synthétiste’, with Gauguin as its leader, held an exhibition from 8 June ...
in translation:
...rthcoming exhibition of Impressionists called Gauguin, Bernard, Anquetin and other names. Am therefo...
781 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 16 June 1889.
in note 3:
...tion in similar terms in a now-lost letter to Gauguin, who was staying in Pont-Aven. Gauguin respond...
in translation:
...exhibition in a café at the exhibition where Gauguin and a few others (Schuffenecker) are exhibitin...
...as were put in it, but he had them taken out. Gauguin left for Pont-Aven a fortnight ago, so he hasn...
782 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 18 June 1889.
in translation:
...biting paintings of mine at the exhibition by Gauguin and others. There’s reason enough for me to ...
For me it’s beyond doubt that Gauguin and Bernard have great and real merit.
Anyway, neither he nor Gauguin are artists who could look as if they were trying to go to the World E...
... haven’t seen the latest canvases either by Gauguin or Bernard, I’m fairly sure that these two s...
Gauguin, Bernard or I will all remain there perhaps, and won’t overcome but neither will we be over...
783 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 25 June 1889.
in translation:
Speaking of Gauguin, Bernard and the fact that they might well do more consolatory painting, I must, ...
784 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 2 July 1889.
in note 14:
Gauguin and Bernard described their work as ‘primitive’.
785 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 2 July 1889.
in note 7:
Paul Gauguin.
in translation:
So my friend who was with me in Arles and a few others have thus organized an exhibition in which, in...
788 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, between about Monday, 8 July and about Friday, 12 July 1889.
in note 4:
Regarding Gauguin’s stay in Martinique, see letter 623, n. 3. Gauguin had lived from October to Dec...
in translation:
...same about Haiti, say, about Martinique where Gauguin, who was with me in Arles, had been. And I dar...
790 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 14 or Monday, 15 July 1889.
in note 2:
...F 735 / JH 1761). The sketch in the letter to Gauguin was made after the painting Reaper (F 617 / JH...
in note 1:
This letter (with letter sketch) to Gauguin is not known. Gauguin thanked Theo around mid-August 1889...
in translation:
...a few words that I’ve written to our friend Gauguin, feeling sufficient calm return to me these la...
...ise over the same field as the croquis in the Gauguin letter, but in which stacks replace the wheat....
...te, but didn’t want to delay sending the letter for our friend Gauguin, you must have the address.
792 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 16 July 1889.
in note 16:
Paul Gauguin, ‘Notes sur l’art à L’Exposition Universelle’, appeared in two parts in Le Mode...
in note 14:
For De Haan and Gauguin’s stay in Brittany, see letter 774, nn. 15 and 16.
in translation:
...ch likes what you’re doing. He’s now with Gauguin. Isaäcson is all at sea now that De Haan is n...
Gauguin is writing in a newspaper, which I’m sending you. He wrote to me last week and asked me to ...
796 Joseph Roulin to Vincent van Gogh. Marseille, Monday, 19 August 1889.
in translation:
...I was very pleased with the approaches friend Gauguin made to your brother to get you to participate...
797 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 22 August 1889.
in translation:
I’ve received catalogue of the Gauguin, Bernard, Schuffenecker &c. exhibition, which I find interes...
...y great pleasure, then send a copy of it to Gauguin. Then the Rodin and Claude Monet brochure is r...
798 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 2 September 1889.
in translation:
I often think of our pals in Brittany, who are certainly doing better work than I am. If, with the ex...
799 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Thursday, 5 September 1889.
in note 12:
Paul Gauguin, La belle Angèle (W315), 1889 (Paris, Musée d’Orsay). Ill. 99.
in note 11:
Regarding the paintings Gauguin shipped from Pont-Aven in October 1888, see letter 704, n. 1.
in note 10:
Gauguin wrote to Theo around 1 September 1889: ‘I have just sent a parcel of canvases to your addre...
in translation:
...stand him too. In any event, it can be tried. Gauguin has sent me a few new canvases. He says that h...
800 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Thursday, 5 and Friday, 6 September 1889.
in translation:
...rtraits these days is terribly strong, anyway Gauguin and I used to chat about that and about simila...
... work in Brittany. I’ve received a letter from G., I think I’ve already told you, and I’m very ...
in note 24:
Van Gogh had spoken of this letter from Gauguin in letter 797.
801 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 10 September 1889.
in note 19:
For Gauguin’s Van Gogh painting sunflowers, see letter 723, n. 6.
in translation:
... so many people there. But what you say about Gauguin interests me a lot. And I still tell myself th...
805 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 20 September 1889.
in note 31:
Maurice Denis related that Gauguin was said to have given similar advice to the young painter Paul S�...
in translation:
...may be exaggerated. That’s what Bernard and Gauguin feel a little bit, they won’t ask for the co...
... Good – make them blue and that’s enough! Gauguin is a genius sometimes when he explains that, b...
807 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Friday, 4 October 1889.
in note 8:
At the beginning of September, Gauguin had sent Theo several recent canvases from Pont-Aven; see lett...
in translation:
..., and one feels that a lot even in the latest Gauguins, I find. Tomorrow Bernard is to come and see ...
808 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 5 October 1889.
in translation:
...espondence, I’d like to write to Isaäcson, Gauguin and Bernard. But writing doesn’t always come...
How I’d like to see what Gauguin and Bernard have brought back.
809 To Emile Bernard. Saint-Rémy, on or about Tuesday, 8 October 1889.
in note 3:
... (l. 19), he had not been in Pont-Aven, where Gauguin was staying at the time. Bernard’s father th...
in translation:
...n no longer being at all up to date with what Gauguin, you and others are doing. But I really must h...
810 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 8 October 1889.
in note 8:
...is probably referring here to the letter from Gauguin, receipt of which he confirmed in letter 797 o...
in translation:
It often seems to me that if Gauguin had remained here he wouldn’t have lost anything, for I clearl...
...m enclosing a note for Isaäcson, Bernard and Gauguin. Naturally there’s no urgency at all to get ...
811 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 21 October 1889.
in note 1:
For Gauguin’s travels to Brazil, see letter 616, n. 2; for his stay in Panama, see letter 623, n. 3...
in translation:
...he writes to you reminds me of what my friend Gauguin told me about Panama and Brazil. I didn’t kn...
813 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Tuesday, 22 October 1889.
in note 11:
Gauguin had probably sent his consignment of paintings shortly before leaving Pont-Aven for Le Pouldu...
in translation:
...e takes away the real sentiment of things. In Gauguin’s last consignment there are the same preocc...
816 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Sunday, 3 November 1889.
in note 12:
Gauguin had been with De Haan in Le Pouldu since 2 October, and would not return to Paris until 8 Feb...
in translation:
...ng. If that will make me more like Bernard or Gauguin, I can’t do anything about it. But am inclin...
Is Gauguin back, and what’s Bernard doing?
817 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Le Pouldu, between about Sunday, 10 and Wednesday, 13 November 1889.
in note 9:
Here Gauguin is referring to, among other things, Theo’s reaction to his paintings. On this subject...
in note 6:
For Gauguin’s Human miseries, see letter 717, n. 2. A drawing by Van Gogh after this painting is no...
in note 4:
Apparently Gauguin did not know that Bernard had returned to Paris. See letter 807, n. 9.
in note 2:
Gauguin had been in Brittany since the end of May 1889. See letter 774, n. 16.
in note 1:
This letter from Van Gogh to Gauguin is not known. It was enclosed with letter 810 to Theo.
in note 13:
Paul Gauguin, Be in love, you will be happy, 1889 (Boston, Museum of Fine Arts). Ill. 112. Gauguin in...
in note 11:
Gauguin and De Haan rented this house from Mr Mauduit, the owner of a stationer’s shop in Quimperl�...
in note 10:
The sketch is after Gauguin’s Christ in the Garden of Olives, 1889 (W326) (West Palm Beach, Norton ...
in translation:
P. Gauguin
819 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 16 November 1889.
in note 2:
For Gauguin’s Be in love, you will be happy, see letter 817, n. 13.
in note 1:
The enclosed letter from Gauguin is letter 817.
in translation:
I enclose a letter which Gauguin sent me for you. The wood he speaks of has also arrived here. What a...
820 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 19 November 1889.
in note 8:
For Gauguin’s Christ in the Garden of Olives, see letter 817, n. 10.
in note 2:
...le to be exhibited; the two repetitions (F 455 and F 458) were intended for Gauguin. See letter 741.
in translation:
Gauguin wrote me a very kind letter and speaks animatedly of De Haan and of their rough-and-ready lif...
And I’m not an admirer of Gauguin’s Christ in the Garden of Olives for example, a croquis of whi...
Gauguin says that they get models easily. That’s what I lack most here.
822 To Emile Bernard. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 26 November 1889.
in note 9:
... (and presumably an accompanying sketch) that Gauguin gave in the autumn of 1888 of Bernard’s pain...
in note 8:
... exactitude of the description shows how much Gauguin had appreciated the painting’ (Lettres à Be...
in note 7:
... (and presumably an accompanying sketch) that Gauguin gave in the autumn of 1888 of Bernard’s pain...
in note 6:
...himself claimed that this work had influenced Gauguin: ‘This is the canvas of which I once spoke i...
in note 17:
In December 1888 Van Gogh and Gauguin had travelled to Montpellier to visit the Musée Fabre. The ‘...
in note 12:
While Gauguin was in Arles, Van Gogh had started the first version of La berceuse (F 508 / JH 1671), ...
in note 10:
...rd also sent a photograph of this painting to Gauguin, who, unlike Van Gogh, reacted positively: ‘...
in translation:
... yours again, like the painting of yours that Gauguin has, those Breton women walking in a meadow, t...
Last year, from what Gauguin was telling me, you were doing a painting more or less like this, I imag...
Gauguin spoke to me of another subject, nothing but three trees, thus effect of orange foliage agains...
When Gauguin was in Arles, I once or twice allowed myself to be led into abstraction, as you know, in...
... I ask you why you appear not to know Giotto. Gauguin and I saw a tiny panel of his in Montpellier, ...
...the imperfection of our works. I believe that Gauguin himself suffers greatly from it, too, and cann...
...’t approve of your spending the season with Gauguin. The latter wrote to me that for reasons of he...
in note 25:
Gauguin had written about Bernard’s father and the deferred military service in letter 817.
823 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 26 November 1889.
in note 4:
The letter to Gauguin is not known; the letter to Bernard is letter 822. Bernard had sent photographs...
in note 3:
Gauguin had sent Van Gogh a sketch of his painting Christ in the Garden of Olives; see letter 817. Be...
in translation:
...�� and I’ve written to Bernard, and also to Gauguin, that I believed that thinking and not dreamin...
... I’d like to see the studies from nature by Gauguin and Bernard, the latter tells me of portraits ...
828 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Le Pouldu, on or about Friday, 13 December 1889.
in note 9:
Paul Gauguin, Women collecting kelp ii, 1889 (W349) (Essen, Museum Folkwang). Ill. 111.
in note 8:
In 1889 Gauguin made several paintings of this subject, such as Breton girls in front of the sea (W34...
in note 7:
Gauguin’s previous letter contained a description and a sketch of this painting, Christ in the Gard...
in note 5:
Paul Gauguin, Joan of Arc, 1889 (W329) (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). Ill. 2296.
in note 4:
...9 (private collection). Ill. 2295. The sketch Gauguin made after it is not known. It emerges from Me...
in note 3:
The window in the dining room, which Gauguin and De Haan painted with rustic motifs in oil paint, has...
in note 2:
...uldu (Brittany) was a collaborative effort by Gauguin, De Haan, Paul Sérusier and Charles Filiger. ...
in note 12:
...Van Gogh after Rembrandt. It is possible that Gauguin was mistaken, and that Van Gogh had suggested ...
in translation:
P. Gauguin.
829 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 19 December 1889.
in note 11:
This was Gauguin’s letter 828.
in translation:
...I’ve received another very nice letter from Gauguin, a letter thoroughly impregnated with the prox...
830 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 22 December 1889.
in note 14:
On about 16 December Gauguin wrote to Theo about the accident that his eight-year-old son Jean-René ...
in note 13:
...y received two consignments of paintings from Gauguin in Brittany; see letter 799, n. 10 and letter ...
in translation:
...ining a dealer, but don’t say that. Look at Gauguin for example, I do like his talent and I’m we...
833 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 31 December 1889 or Wednesday, 1 January 1890.
in note 3:
Gauguin’s son Jean-René had fallen out of a window. See letter 830, n. 14.
in translation:
What a misfortune for Gauguin, that child falling out of the window and he unable to be there, I ofte...
If Gauguin was in too much of a fix I think I’d again suggest to him going to live together where h...
If you saw the letter Gauguin wrote me last time you’d be touched by how upright his thoughts are, ...
835 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Friday, 3 January 1890.
in translation:
...gave Mother great pleasure. I have no news of Gauguin. He’s fortunate to have De Haan with him, fo...
839 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 13 January 1890.
in translation:
..., in the event of leaving here, to send it to Gauguin, who’ll probably spend more time in Brittany...
...e around thirty francs. I’ll drop a line to Gauguin and De Haan to ask if they’re planning to st...
840 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Le Pouldu, on or about Friday, 17 January 1890.
in note 3:
In January 1890 Gauguin wrote from Pont-Aven to Schuffenecker, saying that in Paris he hoped to arran...
in note 2:
... is not known which drawings Van Gogh sent to Gauguin. One of them had been made after the painting ...
in note 1:
This was Gauguin’s son Jean-René; see letter 830, n. 14.
in translation:
Paul Gauguin
841 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Monday, 20 January 1890.
in note 6:
Gauguin’s son Jean-René had fallen out of a window in Copenhagen; see letter 840.
in note 3:
This drawing is not known; Gauguin mentioned it in letter 840.
in translation:
...to your taste – I sent the drawing of it to Gauguin just recently and he told me that he thought i...
... one should always take things. I like friend Gauguin so much because he has found the means to make...
843 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 22 January 1890.
in note 7:
...low House, which was in storage at Ginoux’s Café de la Gare, to Gauguin and De Haan in Brittany.
844 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Le Pouldu, Wednesday, 22 or Thursday, 23 January 1890.
in note 4:
Regarding Gauguin’s plan to go to Tonkin, see letter 840, n. 3.
in note 2:
Gauguin is referring to the exhibition of French and Scandinavian Impressionists, held by the Kunstfo...
in note 1:
In 1889 Gauguin had shown twelve works at the exhibition of Les Vingt. In 1890 Van Gogh exhibited six...
in translation:
P. Gauguin
846 To Jo van Gogh-Bonger. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Friday, 31 January 1890.
in translation:
Tell him that I’ve had a good letter from Gauguin.
849 To John Peter Russell. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 1 February 1890.
in note 2:
...o make another attempt to interest Russell in Gauguin’s work, with a view to carrying out the latt...
in translation:
... think first and I afterwards, met our friend Gauguin? He’s still struggling on – and alone, or ...
... how many times we talked about you together! Gauguin is currently still with one of my fellow-count...
...re you that I myself owe a lot to things that Gauguin told me as regards drawing, and hold his way o...
850 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Saturday, 1 February 1890.
in note 11:
Gauguin wrote this in letter 844.
in translation:
Gauguin proposed, very vaguely it’s true, founding a studio in his name, he, De Haan and I, but sai...
...ong the artists I need people like Russell or Gauguin to carry this task to a successful conclusion,...
851 To Joseph Ginoux. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Sunday, 2 February 1890.
in note 2:
Shortly before this, Van Gogh had received a letter from Gauguin (letter 844).
in translation:
I had news of Mr Paul again the other day, and it’s possible I may soon go and see him, especially ...
852 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 9 February 1890.
in note 9:
...he work is signed ‘A mon cher frère MH’. Gauguin painted the same still life from a different a...
in note 8:
For Gauguin’s plan to go to Tonkin, see letter 840, n. 3.
in translation:
... I’d be really happy if she were. Yesterday Gauguin came to Paris and he asked a lot of questions ...
853 To Albert Aurier. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Sunday, 9 or Monday, 10 February 1890.
in note 12:
... 721). That he painted it several days before Gauguin’s departure as a symbol of his empty seat is...
in note 11:
...er 536, n. 9. Van Gogh had previously compared the man in the portrait with Gauguin; see letter 726.
in translation:
...we a great deal. Next I owe a great deal to Paul Gauguin, with whom I worked for a few months in Arle...
Gauguin, that curious artist, that stranger whose bearing and gaze vaguely recall Rembrandt’s Portr...
...e question of colour, you had done justice to Gauguin and Monticelli before talking about me. For th...
854 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 12 February 1890.
in note 3:
Gauguin wrote this in letter 844.
in note 2:
It appears from Theo’s letter (852) that Gauguin had returned to Paris on 8 February. It is not kno...
in note 17:
Gauguin eventually received Augustine Roulin (‘La berceuse’) (F 506 / JH 1670). See letter 776, n...
in note 16:
...) and Sunflowers in a vase (F 458 / JH 1667). Gauguin never got these works. It can be inferred from...
in note 15:
Gauguin spent the period May-October 1887 working in Martinique.
in note 13:
This remark refers to the exhibition of Gauguin’s work held in Copenhagen in May 1885; see letter 8...
in note 12:
For Gauguin’s plan, see letter 844.
in translation:
And so Gauguin has come back to Paris – I’m going to copy my reply to Mr Aurier to send it to him...
Gauguin wrote to me that he’d exhibited in Denmark and that this exhibition had been very successfu...
...d money on the journey. Perhaps by sacrificing the journey one could be useful to Gauguin or Lauzet.
... don’t you think that in Antwerp, if we put Gauguin’s plan into practice, one would have to main...
...more vigorously there than in Paris. And then Gauguin is still in Paris at the moment, his reputatio...
855 To Anna van Gogh-Carbentus. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 19 February 1890.
in note 6:
Gauguin had written this in letter 844.
in translation:
... we’ll hope for the best. It’s odd that my friend with whom I worked for a time in Arles should w...
856 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Wednesday, 19 February 1890.
in note 4:
...traits of Madame Ginoux, based on the drawing Gauguin had made in Arles: Madame Ginoux (study for �...
in translation:
...any event it seemed to me that Monticelli and Gauguin were rather like that, that it therefore seeme...
857 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Monday, 17 March 1890.
in note 2:
This letter from Gauguin is not known. What Van Gogh says further on in the letter about Gauguin’s ...
in note 1:
...ne of the five he had painted on the basis of Gauguin’s drawing Madame Ginoux (study for ‘Night ...
in translation:
Warm regards to Gauguin, who wrote me a letter for which I thank him very much, I’m terribly bored ...
...at desire to get back to my work, though, but Gauguin also writes that he, who is nevertheless robus...
858 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Wednesday, 19 March 1890.
in note 5:
...ible that Theo did exchange the painting with Gauguin, or perhaps he (or Jo) gave it to him, because...
in translation:
...e up to ask me to give you their compliments. Gauguin said that your paintings are the key to the ex...
...rom Aurier. He’s to come shortly to see the Gauguins and do an article on him. I’ve received the...
859 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, on or about Thursday, 20 March 1890.
in note 2:
Gauguin’s letter sketch was made after Van Gogh’s Ravine (F 662 / JH 1804), which was on display ...
in note 1:
Gauguin had visited Theo at home on 13 March (FR b4301).
in translation:
Paul Gauguin
863 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Tuesday, 29 April 1890.
in note 8:
...heo. See cat. Otterlo 2003, pp. 341-343. That Gauguin did in fact receive a version of the Arlésien...
in translation:
...nne, you know that I’ve promised our friend Gauguin one, and you must see that he gets it. Then th...
865 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Thursday, 1 May 1890.
in note 14:
This was Gauguin’s letter 859, in which the exchange was mentioned.
in note 11:
Gauguin had suggested exchanging Ravine (F 662 / JH 1804) for a painting of his, to be chosen by Van ...
in translation:
So Gauguin and Guillaumin, the two of them, want to do an exchange for the landscape of the Alpilles....
Included is Gauguin’s letter, do what you think best as regards the exchange, take the ones you lik...
866 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Friday, 2 May 1890.
in note 6:
Marie Ginoux was portrayed by Gauguin in his drawing Madame Ginoux (study for ‘Night café, Arles�...
in translation:
...r whose portrait you’ve just received after Gauguin’s drawing, then certainly I’d try to execu...
884 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, on or about Friday, 13 June 1890.
in note 3:
Gauguin also tried to interest Bernard in his plan (which he never carried out) to settle in Madagasc...
in note 2:
...ions of Marie Ginoux (‘The Arlésienne’). Gauguin, however, speaks of one canvas in particular, ...
in note 1:
This letter to Gauguin is not known.
in translation:
P. Gauguin
888 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Sunday, 15 June 1890.
in note 8:
...nted in Saint-Rémy. Assuming that Theo meant Gauguin when he wrote ‘Il’ (see n. 7), this must r...
in note 7:
...o could be referring here to either Lauzet or Gauguin, to whom the rest of the paragraph refers. Vin...
in note 12:
...d to Paris at the beginning of February 1890, Gauguin moved in with Emile Schuffenecker, 12 rue Dura...
in note 11:
This was Gauguin’s letter 884, in which he wrote about his impending departure for Brittany and his...
in note 10:
...The ‘payment’ mentioned by Theo, on which Gauguin’s project supposedly depended, was the money...
889 To Theo van Gogh. Auvers-sur-Oise, Tuesday, 17 June 1890.
in note 7:
Theo had two works that Gauguin had painted during his stay in Martinique. Vincent’s choice of word...
in note 11:
For Gauguin’s plan to go to Tonkin, see letter 840, n. 3. With regard to his Madagascar plans, see ...
in translation:
... that he would do well to go to Brittany with Gauguin and De Haan, because he’ll live there on 3 f...
I was really pleased that Gauguin is going off with De Haan again. Naturally this Madagascar plan see...
RM23 To Paul Gauguin, Auvers-sur-Oise, on or about Tuesday, 17 June 1890.
in note 9:
... the portrait could refer to either Lauzet or Gauguin; we assume, however, that he was referring to ...
in note 7:
For Gauguin’s Christ in the Garden of Olives, see letter 817, n. 10. In that letter Gauguin told Va...
in note 2:
...H 1894); see letter 884, n. 2. With regard to Gauguin’s drawing, , Madame Ginoux (study for ‘Nig...
in translation:
My dear friend Gauguin
892 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Le Pouldu, on or about Saturday, 28 June 1890.
in note 2:
...e various impressions do not reveal which one Gauguin received (see Van Heugten and Pabst 1995, p. 8...
in note 1:
This letter is Gauguin’s reaction to a new version (which has not survived) of RM23. Cf. Hulsker 19...
in translation:
Paul Gauguin
896 To Theo van Gogh and Jo van Gogh-Bonger. Auvers-sur-Oise, Wednesday, 2 July 1890.
in translation:
A rather melancholy letter from Gauguin, he talks vaguely of having definitely decided on Madagascar,...
897 Theo van Gogh to Vincent van Gogh. Paris, Saturday, 5 July 1890.
in note 4:
...n 5 July 1890 to Eugène Blot for 200 francs (Gauguin received 150 francs), and Oranges and lemons w...
in translation:
...rancs, but among other things I’ve sold two Gauguins, for which I’ve sent him the amount. Pissar...
902 To Theo van Gogh. Auvers-sur-Oise, Wednesday, 23 July 1890.
in note 6:
It cannot be ascertained which ‘Gauguin from Brittany’ Vincent is referring to here. Theo had var...
in translation:
I noted with pleasure that the Gauguin from Brittany that I saw was very beautiful, and it seems to m...

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Correspondents / Artist friends
in correspondents_3:
...fly to Theo during the two months that he and Gauguin worked together in Arles. However, both in his...
...io for himself and another artist, preferably Gauguin, and he came up with a strategy for getting hi...
...n exchange of self-portraits with Bernard and Gauguin, who were in Pont-Aven in Brittany, followed i...
...boulevard’ consisted of Guillaumin, Seurat, Gauguin, Bernard, Anquetin, Angrand, Toulouse-Lautrec,...
... letter of 1 or 2 November of that year, when Gauguin was staying with him in the Yellow House, the ...
...surviving correspondence between Van Gogh and Gauguin covers the period March 1888 to June 1890. The...
Van Gogh and Gauguin must have met in Paris in November or December 1887.On Gauguin’s meeting with ...
On Gauguin’s meeting with the Van Gogh brothers see Merlhès 1984, pp. 470-471, and exhib. cat. Chi...
See letter 575 for the exhibition, and letters 576 and 640 for the exchange with Gauguin.
Gauguin’s reputation had undoubtedly gone before him, and Van Gogh must already have known quite a ...
On 4 January 1888 Theo bought Gauguin’s Among the mangoes (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum). See Gauguin...
The friendship with Gauguin did not yet amount to very much when Van Gogh left Paris, unlike that wit...
It is clear from Gauguin’s letter 581 of on or around 29 February 1888, in which he writes ‘I hav...
...1888. Bernard himself wrote that he first met Gauguin in Pont-Aven in 1886, but only got to know him...
... being, at a distance, when Bernard called on Gauguin in Pont-Aven on Van Gogh’s advice in the sum...
...s Self-portrait with portrait of Gauguin, and Gauguin’s Self-portrait with portrait of Bernard, �...
When Van Gogh received a letter from Gauguin in Arles at the end of February 1888 complaining that he...
See letter 616. Letter 581 is the one from Gauguin.
Gauguin was initially rather lukewarm about the plan, but undoubtedly soon realized that it did offer...
On the collaboration between Van Gogh and Gauguin see exhib. cat. Chicago 2001, esp. ch. 4. For the e...
The ‘draft letter’ for Gauguin, which Van Gogh sent for Theo’s approval at the end of May 1888 ...
The note that Van Gogh wrote to Gauguin immediately after leaving hospital sounds cordial enough,Lett...
...events, as demonstrated by the paintings that Gauguin received from Vincent via Theo and the few let...
Gauguin received a version of Augustine Roulin (‘La berceuse’) (F 506 / JH 1670) and one of Mar...
Publication history / De brieven 1990: a large edition for a small readership
in publications_6:
...her works, such as the Roulin letters published by Hulsker and the Gauguin letters edited by Cooper.
Publication history / A flood of supplementary publications
in publications_4:
Van Gogh to Paul Gauguin (letter 706), in La Rénovation Esthétique (September 1905).Bernard 1994, v...
Van Gogh to Paul Gauguin (letter 739), in Jean de Rotonchamps, Paul Gauguin 1848-1903. Weimar 1906, p...
Van Gogh to Paul Gauguin (letter 695/687),The reason that two numbers are given here is that we have ...
...hat Theo and Vincent van Gogh received from Paul Gauguin (Gauguin lettres 1983). See Letters from Gau...
Correspondents / Preservation of the letters
in correspondents_4:
... he went to live with Theo in Paris. One from Gauguin was left behind in Paris.Letter 576. The remai...
...Octave Maus and with 4 of the 16 letters from Gauguin.The letter from Maus is 818, while the four fr...
The letter from Maus is 818, while the four from Gauguin are 581, 586, 646 and 675.
...o reason that Van Gogh found the letters from Gauguin important and interesting enough to keep, but ...
... latter (letter 503). The correspondence with Gauguin must have amounted to more than what we now ha...
Biographical & historical context / The financial backgrounds
in context_3:
...s between his arrival on 20 February 1888 and Gauguin’s at the end of October.This is based on the...
...f December 1888, of which 400 francs were for Gauguin. Vincent probably paid out about the same amou...
... francs a month, which rose to 20 francs when Gauguin was staying there. This means that Vincent had...
...hing. In October 1888 Theo did manage to sell Gauguin’s Breton women chatting for 600 francs, but ...
Publication history / The early publications of the letters
in publications_2:
...he Neo-Impressionists, not least because of Paul Gauguin’s links with their country. Gauguin’s wi...
...cure de France. En passant he also quoted from a draft letter to Paul Gauguin (pp. 50-51). See RM23.
Publication history / The first collected edition of 1952-1954 and thereafter
in publications_5:
...lish edition is outside the scope of our edition; it is a letter from Theo van Gogh to Paul Gauguin.
...en he edited an edition of the letters from Paul Gauguin to Van Gogh and to Theo and Jo van Gogh-Bong...
The relationship between Van Gogh and Gauguin is one of the most famous in the history of modern art,...
About this edition / The transcriptions
in about_2:
...opics’ and the question of colour) and that Gauguin and Monticelli had been much more important in...
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / The letters: from conventional to personal
in letter_writer_2:
... Theo but to artist friends like Van Rappard, Gauguin and Bernard as well – provide us with an inc...
...in the future, not just for Vincent, Theo and Gauguin personally, but for the new art of painting in...
...t Van Gogh preferred. The correspondence with Gauguin and Bernard is of the utmost importance in the...
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Strategies and rhetoric
in letter_writer_4:
...rops up from time to time in the letters to Paul Gauguin, the brother-in-arms in the struggle for the...
Van Gogh only uses the intimate ‘tu’ to Gauguin in one letter (616), but that was a draft, and it...
...possible that he felt that his own letters to Gauguin and Bernard fitted in that category to a certa...
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Manuscripts
in letter_writer_5:
...eets as well, as did Van Gogh’s parents and Gauguin. Notepaper for letters could be bought ready-f...
...as been underlined in pencil and the names ‘Gauguin Bernard’ written in the margin. It is imposs...
...othered Theo and friends like Van Rappard and Gauguin, even though they wrote neater letters.See, fo...
Van Gogh as a letter-writer / Sketches
in letter_writer_6:
...aul Verlaine, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul Gauguin, to mention but a few of Van Gogh’s contem...

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Documentation
in documentation:
... you still remember the painting by Gauguin with the negresses that hangs above ...
... on with are slightly afraid of him, which Gauguin’s visit to him did noth...
Overview of all the letters
in overview:
to Paul Gauguin, French artist whom Van Gogh met in Paris
from Paul Gauguin
Chronology
in 1888:
...tion of pastels by Edgar Degas and paintings by Gauguin organized by Theo at Boussod, Valadon & Cie.
in 1887:
...ec and himself. He meets Georges Seurat and Paul Gauguin there. Makes regular visits to Armand Guilla...
... *Probably visits the exhibition of work by Gauguin, Guillaumin and Camille Pissarro organized by ...
in 1890:
Mid-January @Sends 2 drawings to Gauguin (840).

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205 letters, 12 essay items and 3 other items found

205 letters found

12 essay items found

3 other items found

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters