References
Abbreviations
Catalogues and Reference Books
[Abbreviations are followed by catalogue numbers to identify works of art]
Bodelsen: Merete Bodelsen, Gauguinâs Ceramics: A Study in the Development of his Art, London, 1964
Druick and Zegers: Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, in collaboration with Britt Salvesen, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South, exh. cat (Art Institute of Chicago and Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam), London, 2001
DW: Daniel Wildenstein, Gauguin: Premier itinĂ©raire dâun sauvage. Catalogue de lâĆuvre peint (1873â1888), texts and research Sylvie Crussard, documentation and chronology Martine Heudron, 2 vols, Paris and Milan, 2001
Field: Richard S. Field, Paul Gauguin: Monotypes, Philadelphia, 1973
Gray: Christopher Gray, Sculpture and Ceramics of Paul Gauguin, Baltimore, MD, 1963
Kornfeld: Elizabeth Mongan, Eberhard W. Kornfeld and Harold Joachim, Paul Gauguin: Catalogue raisonné of his Prints, Bern, 1988
Paris 1989: Gauguin, exh. cat. (Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris), 1989
W: Raymond Cogniat and Daniel Wildenstein, eds, Gauguin, vol. I: Catalogue, Paris, 1964
Writings By and About Gauguin
Ancien culte mahorie: see Gauguin Ă©crivain
Avant et aprĂšs: Paul Gauguin, Avant et aprĂšs, Taravao, 1989
Cahier pour Aline: Paul Gauguin, Cahier pour Aline, unpaginated manuscript, Institut National dâHistoire de lâArt, Paris, BibliothĂšque de lâINHA, Collections Jacques Doucet (available online at www.inha.fr/spip.php?rubrique87)
Cooper: Douglas Cooper, ed., Paul Gauguin: 45 lettres Ă Vincent, Theo et Jo van Gogh, La Haye and Lausanne, 1983
Diverses choses: see Gauguin Ă©crivain
Gauguin Ă©crivain: Isabelle Cahn, Gauguin Ă©crivain: Noa Noa, Diverses choses, Ancien culte mahorie, CD-ROM, Paris, 2003
Gauguin and Morice: Paul Gauguin and Charles Morice, Noa Noa, Paris, 1901
Joly-Segalen: Paul Gauguin, Lettres Ă Daniel de Monfreid : PrĂ©cĂ©dĂ©es dâun hommage par Victor Segalen, ed. Mme Joly-Segalen, Paris, 1950
Lettres à André Fontainas: Paul Gauguin, Lettres à André Fontainas, Caen, 1994
Loize 1966: Jean Loize, Noa Noa par Paul Gauguin, Paris, 1966 [transcription of manuscript held at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Special Collections]
Malingue: Paul Gauguin, Lettres Ă sa femme et Ă ses amis, ed. Maurice Malingue, Paris, 1946
MerlhĂšs 1984: Victor MerlhĂšs, ed., Correspondance de Paul Gauguin, documents-tĂ©moignages, vol. I: 1873â1888, Paris, 1984
MerlhĂšs 1989: Victor MerlhĂšs, Paul Gauguin et Vincent van Gogh, 1887â1888: Lettres retrouvĂ©es, sources ignorĂ©es, Taravao, 1989
MerlhÚs 1995: Victor MerlhÚs, De Bretagne en Polynésie: Paul Gauguin, pages inédites, Tahiti, 1995
Noa Noa / Voyage de Tahiti [manuscript held at the MusĂ©e du Louvre, DĂ©partement des Arts Graphiques, Fonds du MusĂ©e dâOrsay]: see Gauguin Ă©crivain
Oviri, Ă©crits dâun sauvage: Paul Gauguin, Oviri, Ă©crits dâun sauvage, ed. Daniel GuĂ©rin, Paris, 1974
Prather and Stuckey: Marla Prather and Charles F. Stuckey, eds, Paul Gauguin, 1848â1903, Cologne, 1994
Racontars de rapin: Paul Gauguin, Racontars de Rapin, Paris, 1951
Verdier 1986: Philippe Verdier, âUn manuscrit de Gauguin: LâEsprit moderne et le catholicismeâ, in Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch, vols 46â47, 1985â6, pp. 273â328 [transcription of the manuscript on pp. 299â328]
Vincent Van Gogh: The Letters: at www.vangoghletters.org/vg/letters (online edition, Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, Huygens Institute-KNAW)
N.B.: The spelling and punctuation of Gauguinâs writings have been respected as much as possible, including in the titles of his works when these are based on inscriptions.
Introduction: Irritations, Echoes and Parables
1 Diverses choses [1896â1898], f. 136 r [paginated 263], manuscript reproduced in Gauguin Ă©crivain; partial transcription in Daniel GuĂ©rin, ed., Paul Gauguin: The Writings of a Savage (New York, 1978), p. 139.
2 Jules Huret, âPaul Gauguin devant ses tableauxâ, LâEcho de Paris, 23 February 1891, p. 2 (Writings of a Savage, p. 48).
3 Paul Gauguin, âArmand Seguinâ, Mercure de France, XII, February 1895, pp. 222â4 (223).
4 Jean Dolent, âChroniqueâ, Le Journal des artistes, 22 February 1891, reprinted in J. Dolent, Monstres (Paris, 1896), p. 121. Gauguin thought very highly of this article, pasting it into the manuscript of Cahier pour Aline and copying it into Diverses choses, f. 118 V [paginated 230].
5 Letter of 11 or 12 November 1888 (Vincent van Gogh: The Letters, Letter 719; all translations of the Van Gogh letters are taken from the online edition at www.vangoghletters.org [Translatorâs note]).
6 Lettres à André Fontainas, Letter 1 (March 1899), p. 10.
7 Odilon Redon, Ă soi-mĂȘme: Journal (1867â1915). Notes sur la vie, lâart et les artistes (Paris, 1961), p. 100.
8 Dario Gamboni, Potential Images: Ambiguity and Indeterminacy in Modern Art (London, 2002).
9 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, trans. G.E.M. Anscombe (Oxford, 1967), p. 193.
10 Cf. Gamboni, Potential Images, notably pp. 18â20 and 148.
11 Ibid., pp. 86â104, in particular pp. 87â8, and Dario Gamboni, Portrait of the Artist as a Landscape (Amsterdam, 2002).
12 Cf. my published articles on this subject, the principal elements of which have been included in the present book: âPaul Gauguinâs Genesis of a Picture: A Painterâs Manifesto and Self-analysisâ, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Autumn 2003, available at www.19thc-artworldwide.org; âManaâo tupapaâu: Jarry, Gauguin et la fraternitĂ© des artsâ, in Michael Einfalt, ed., Intellektuelle Redlichkeit â IntĂ©gritĂ© intellectuelle: Literatur â Geschichte â Kultur. Festschrift fĂŒr Joseph Jurt, Heidelberg, Winter 2005, pp. 459â75; âParahi te marae: oĂč est le temple?â, 48/14: La revue du musĂ©e dâOrsay, 20, Spring 2005, pp. 6â17; âThe Vision of a Vision: Perception, Hallucination, and Potential Images in Gauguinâs Vision of the Sermonâ, Van Gogh Studies, III, 2010, pp. 11â28.
13 Felix ThĂŒrlemann, âLâaquarelle de DĂŒrer Fenedier Klawsen: La double mimesis dans lâanalyse picturale dâun lieu gĂ©ographiqueâ, Revue de lâart, 137, 2002â3, pp. 9â18; ThĂŒrlemann, DĂŒrers doppelter Blick, Konstanz (2008); Michel Weemans, âHer...