GAUGUIN, PAUL. Autograph letter signed ("Paul Gauguin") in French to an unidentified correspondent ("Cher Monsieur"), n.p. [Tahiti], April 1901. 1 full page, 4to, attractively framed with two bronze medallions, in French. THE PAINTER PREPARES TO LEAVE TAHITI. Gauguin, who has lived and painted on Tahiti since 1891, is considering, for a variety of reasons, moving to the even more remote Marquesa Islands, which he did, a few months after this letter and where he died, in May 1903. Gauguin reports that he has received the packages sent by his correspondent: "everything is in order at the moment," but "Tahiti is at present undergoing a terrible outbreak of an influenza epidemic which has killed many of the elderly and debilitated others; anyway, my work [painting] is not progressing quickly. Elsewhere, the continual threat of bubonic plague reported in San Francisco puts our transports in quarantine, increasing the price of merchandise. If it goes on like this life will be so expensive that I will be forced to leave for the Marquesas, which after all wouldn't be so bad because it would give me entirely new elements for a picture ["un tableau"]. Well, we will see, but I predict that in time you will need my new address."
GAUGUIN, PAUL. Autograph letter signed ("Paul Gauguin") in French to an unidentified correspondent ("Cher Monsieur"), n.p. [Tahiti], April 1901. 1 full page, 4to, attractively framed with two bronze medallions, in French. THE PAINTER PREPARES TO LEAVE TAHITI. Gauguin, who has lived and painted on Tahiti since 1891, is considering, for a variety of reasons, moving to the even more remote Marquesa Islands, which he did, a few months after this letter and where he died, in May 1903. Gauguin reports that he has received the packages sent by his correspondent: "everything is in order at the moment," but "Tahiti is at present undergoing a terrible outbreak of an influenza epidemic which has killed many of the elderly and debilitated others; anyway, my work [painting] is not progressing quickly. Elsewhere, the continual threat of bubonic plague reported in San Francisco puts our transports in quarantine, increasing the price of merchandise. If it goes on like this life will be so expensive that I will be forced to leave for the Marquesas, which after all wouldn't be so bad because it would give me entirely new elements for a picture ["un tableau"]. Well, we will see, but I predict that in time you will need my new address."
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