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Article: Sunny side down; Van Gogh and Gauguin.(The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles )(Book review)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- April 29, 2006
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Million dollar baby
TWO more mismatched housemates than Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin would be hard to find. Van Gogh was unkempt, emotionally unstable and talked incessantly while he worked. Gauguin, a former sailor and businessman, was taciturn, orderly and a loner. Yet from October to December 1888, the two shared a four-roomed yellow house in Arles until, after a quarrel, Van Gogh cut off his ear. Gauguin fled for Paris and the two never saw each other again.
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