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Nine Weeks in Arles

At Theo van Gogh's instigation, Paul Gauguin came south to Arles in late October 1888 to share Vincent's Yellow House. They painted side by side for nine weeks, argued about whether to work from nature or from imagination, and never worked together again.

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Gauguin moved into the guest room of Van Gogh's Yellow House in late October 1888 and stayed nine weeks. A few doors along the same square, an all-night café stayed open while the town slept.

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Gauguin urged painting from memory and imagination; Van Gogh tried it briefly, found it did not suit him, and went back to working from nature. Over the winter of 1888 their friendship grew fraught.

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More than a year after they parted, Van Gogh wrote to the critic Albert Aurier that he owed Gauguin a great deal, and asked him to go and look at one picture again as a memento of his friend.

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