I think that – in spite of myself – I won’t be able to prevent myself sending you a few canvases shortly, say within a month. I say in spite of myself, for I’m convinced that the canvases gain from drying right through here in the south, to the point where the impasto is thoroughly hardened, which takes a long time – that’s to say a year. If I restrain myself from sending them that would certainly be best. For we don’t need to show them at the moment, I’m well enough aware of that.
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ResetThe Green Vineyard
Arles, September 1888
oil on canvas
72 cm x 92 cm
The thing is, regarding the impasto things, Gauguin has told me how to get rid of the grease by washing them from time to time. What’s more, when that’s done I must work on them again to retouch them.