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...long road of art to travel. He went to Paris, where he lived with Theo, painted furiously and tried to become like the Impressionists, whom he reverenced. But it was against his grain. Suddenly he left Paris, went off to Aries to work by himself. Eight months later Gauguin joined...
...spite of their dissimilarity the two got along fairly well till one day van Gogh suggested in all seriousness that they paint pictures together, each contributing the thing he was best at. Gauguin laughed all the way to the town brothel. There one of the girls told van Gogh that if he could not give her a five-franc piece for a Christmas present he might at least make her a gift of one of his big lop-ears. Next day, with no apparent provocation, van Gogh hurled an absinthe glass at Gauguin. The day following, he left a parcel...
...wanted to see. A questionnaire showed they wanted to see September Morn and Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair. Mr. McCormick, remembering the art shambles at Chicago's 1893 Fair where every exhibitor was given space to hang what he liked, countered with the names of Rembrandt, Gauguin, da Vinci...
McCormick: Exactly. But at least you know that Rembrandt, Gauguin and da Vinci are dead...
FLETCHER (John Gould) Paul Gauguin Illustrated...