[Paul GAUGUIN] Judith GÉRARD ARLBERG (1881-1954)... - Lot 49 - Ader

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[Paul GAUGUIN] Judith GÉRARD ARLBERG (1881-1954)... - Lot 49 - Ader
[Paul GAUGUIN] Judith GÉRARD ARLBERG (1881-1954) painter and translator, daughter-in-law William Molard, Gauguin's neighbour in 1893-1894, she undoubtedly had an affair with the painter. L.S., Boulancourt (Loiret) 7 November 1947, to Pola Gauguin; 2 typed pages. To Gauguin's youngest son (1883-1961). She rectifies some material errors in her article; as to the substance, "Gauguin is so above and beyond all justice and judgment that the question cannot be asked. He was a force of nature, one of those beings who escape all human measure before whom one can only note and admire "... But Schuffenecker "was not the devoted friend you think he was, but an awful jealous man," his brother, "a vulgar bandit," and Daniel de Monfreid "shamefully speculated on the future value of works that he charitably paid for a piece of bread. ...] Gauguin only ever had one friend, a real one, little Francesco Durrieux, known as Paco Durrio".... She saw him at the Autumn Fair at the age of 70. " He still said "He" and "Him", as we speak of God, and his pale blue eyes were filled with tears. This one loved him with all the fervour of a dog, he admired him with all the understanding of an artist disinherited by nature and sparingly gifted by the muses [...], he starved beside the relics he kept piously, refusing to sell the slightest scribble picked up in the sweepings "...
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