Paul GAUGUIN, French painter (1848-1903)... - Lot 21 - Goxe - Belaisch - Hôtel des ventes d'Enghien

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Paul GAUGUIN, French painter (1848-1903)... - Lot 21 - Goxe - Belaisch - Hôtel des ventes d'Enghien
Paul GAUGUIN, French painter (1848-1903) Autograph letter signed to painter Roderic O'Conor. 2 pp. in-8. [Probably late February or early March 1895, see Chaudet's letter of March 12, 1895]. Slight folding mark on the first page, without hindrance to the text.Very nice and important letter which seems to be unpublished. Thank you! I received the money that Seguin brought me one evening before leaving for Pont-Aven. I am now quite ill. [Gauguin had caught syphilis] And I can't risk leaving until May. This time, it will be the right move. Since I have to leave alone, I'm leaving anyway for the Marquesas Islands; I'm tired of trying combinations; I'll leave with what money I have and come what may. Perhaps within a year I will have found the rest in my absence. That is to say that between now and May I am trying to get as much as possible. I hope that my Eve has not lost to be seen often and that you are not disgusted by it... [It is known that August Strinberg refused to write the preface to the catalog of the exhibition for the sale of Gauguin at the Hôtel Drouot, which included his Eve, as he did not find it to his taste, which certainly disturbed the painter, and he had some doubts about its execution. The Swedish in a long letter will explain his refusal. I can't understand your art and I can't love it.... I have tried myself to make a serious effort to classify you... I saw on the walls of your studio this tohu-bohu of sunny paintings which pursued me this night in my sleep... Sir, I said in my dream, you have created a new earth and a new sky, but I don't like the middle of your creation. It is too sunny for me, who loves the dark. And in your paradise lives an Eve, who is not my ideal... . In November 1894, Gauguin wrote to Daniel de Monfreid, that he would leave for the islands, accompanied by two companions, one French and one English. This eventuality does not seem to be an evidence anymore, since he undertook this trip alone, revealing it in this letter.
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