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    GAUGUIN AND VAN GOGH AT HOME

    Mar 19, 2020 2 minutes
    © RMN-Grand Palais/Musée National Picasso, Paris

    At the beginning of 1888, Paul Gauguin had written to Van Gogh from Pont Aven in Brittany. He was unable to work as he was suffering from dysentery, malaria and hepatitis contracted during a trip he had made to Martinique a few months previously. Although he

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