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Paul Gauguin

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As I wanted to suggest a luxuriant and untamed type of nature, a tropical sun that sets aglow everything around it, I was obliged to give my figures a suitable setting.
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Diverse Choses, notebook (1896 - 1898), p. 137

 
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