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My dear Vincent
Thank you for replying;1 I see that you’re in a good spot to study the sun that enchants you, and you’re working all the better because the subject grips you. Thank you again for your good will towards me;2 the trade in paintings is so hard in our day and age. Despite that, I’m in a state of constant agony here; money worries are the only ones that have an effect on me, and unfortunately 1v:2 I believe I’m fated always to suffer from them.
Pont-Aven is very dreary at the moment because of the bad weather, continual wind and rain, and I’m waiting for the fine days to get back to work, which I’ve neglected a bit owing to illness.
A cordial handshake.

Paul Gauguin

Pont-Aven — Pension Gloanec

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Br. 1990: 588 | CL: GAC 29
From: Paul Gauguin
To: Vincent van Gogh
Date: Pont-Aven, between about Saturday, 17 and about Monday, 19 March 1888
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Source status:
Original manuscript

Location:
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, inv. no. b840 V/1962

Date:
Gauguin thanks Van Gogh for his reply to letter 581 of about 29 February 1888. Cooper dated the present letter to about 19 March 1888; Merlhès to about 14-16 March; but neither put forward any arguments for this. In any event the letter dates from before about 21 March since this is when Vincent sent it on to Theo, enclosed with letter 588. Since Gauguin complains of the ‘continual wind and rain’ (l. 19) and the wind began to strengthen in the west in the evening of the 16th, we have dated the letter between about Saturday, 17 and about Monday, 19 March 1888. See Gauguin lettres 1983, p. 209, Correspondance Gauguin 1984, p. 174 and Météo-France.

Additional:
The letter was sent on to Theo with letter 588.

Ongoing topic:
Gauguin’s illness (581)

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586 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Pont-Aven, between about Saturday, 17 and about Monday, 19 March 1888.

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586 Paul Gauguin to Vincent van Gogh. Pont-Aven, between about Saturday, 17 and about Monday, 19 March 1888.

This letter – Van Gogh’s reply to Gauguin ’s letter 581 – has not survived.
Vincent had urged Theo to do his best to sell Gauguin ’s work, and had given Russell and Gauguin each other’s addresses in the hope that Russell might buy a painting from Gauguin. See letter 582 and 583.

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