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Arles, c. 9 July 1888
...ose at home, but like this, like those you see in Japanese albums; and gold and green Cantharides in swarms on the olive trees. These grasshoppers (I think they are called cicada) sing at least as lou...
Arles, 15 July 1888
...Gauguin, like myself, wants to have some of those Japanese prints here. So do just as you think best about paying him the 90 francs of the deposit in full, and then take up a full 100 francs' worth la...
Arles, 15 July 1888
...ss! The point is that we do not know enough about Japanese prints. Fortunately we know more about the Japanese of France, the impressionists. So Japanese art proper, already interred in collections, a...
Arles, 15 July 1888
... the little hills of the Crau. It does not have a Japanese look, and yet it is really the most Japanese thing I have done; a microscopic figure of a ploughman, a little train running across the wheat ...
Arles, c. 23 July 1888
...any other things, the primitives no less than the Japanese, give me the impression of having been composed with the pen. I find that immensely interesting, but anything complete and perfect renders in...
Pont-Aven, c.25 July 1888
...g down to chromium yellow without execution as in Japanese crepons. At the top a boiling cascade of water, pink-white and a rainbow on the side close to the frame. At the bottom a white touch, a black...
Arles, 9 and 16 September 1888
...nut. In this very tiny room I want to put, in the Japanese manner, at least 6 very large canvases, particularly the enormous bouquets of sunflowers. You know that the Japanese instinctively look for c...
Arles, c. 22 September 1888
...lso came this morning, bringing me the package of Japanese stuff and other things. Among them I very much like the cabaret in two sheets, with the line of violet girl musicians against the yellow ligh...
Arles, 24 September 1888
... or tire of the struggle. I have arranged all the Japanese prints in the studio, and the Daumiers, and the Delacroixs and the Géricaults. If you come across Delacroix's “Pieta” agai...
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