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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Paul Gauguin
(c. 17 June 1890)
... my return I have thought of you every
day. I stayed in Paris only three days, and the noise, etc., of
Paris had such a bad effect on me that I thought it wise for my
head's sake to fly to the country; but for that, I should soon
have dropped in on you.
And it gives me enormous pleasure when you say the
Arlésienne's portrait , which was
based strictly on your drawing, is to your liking. I tried to
be religiously faithful to your drawing, while nevertheless
taking the liberty of interpreting through the medium of colour
the sober character and the style of the drawing in question.
It is a synthesis of the Arlésiennes, if you like;
as syntheses of the Arlésiennes are rare, take
this as a work belonging to you and me as a summary of our
months of work together. For my part I paid for doing it with
another month of illness, but I also know that it is a canvas
which will be understood by you, and by a very few others, as
we would wish it to be understood.... |
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