[GAUGUIN (Paul)]. - VOLLARD (Anbroise). Autograph... - Lot 17 - Osenat

[GAUGUIN (Paul)]. - VOLLARD (Anbroise). Autograph letter signed to Paul Gauguin. Paris, December 27, 1901. 3 pp. 2/3 in-8. A photographic portrait of Ambroise Vollard attached. AMBROISE VOLLARD, PAUL GAUGUIN'S DEALER IN OCEANIA. The painter, who had stayed in Tahiti from 1891 to 1893 and then from 1895 to September 1901, and who had just settled in September 1901 in the Marquesas Islands, was experiencing serious financial difficulties because he was having trouble selling his works. This was largely due to the lack of understanding of the majority of people, but also to the maneuvering of connoisseurs and dealers such as Ambroise Vollard, the inertia of the broker Lévy, and the irregular payment of the sums due to him. "Dear Mr. Gauguin, two words to tell you that I recently sent you a check for six hundred and fifty francs on which there was 300 frs, VAN GOGH PRICE to Bauchy [the lemonade maker Auguste Bauchy, one of the first and great collectors of the two painters]. I sent you a few days ago a check for a thousand francs. AS I HAVE NOT RECEIVED AN ANSWER FROM YOU ABOUT THE LARGE PAINTER SOLD, I HAVE SENT YOU HALF THE PRICE, that is to say 750 frs to be taken out of 1000 frs, which makes that my sending of this month amounts to only 250 frs. I have received a letter from Scharf and Kayser [Hamburg bank through which Ambroise Vollard sent part of the money he sent to Paul Gauguin] in which they tell me that by mistake, instead of paying you 350 frs. some time ago, they only paid you 267 f. - but that they had given the order to complete the rest. It seems that their correspondent, instead of paying the equivalent in francs of 267 marks, had included 267 francs. I DID NOT RECEIVE THE BOX OF PAINTINGS THAT YOU ANNOUNCED TO ME. Have you received the shipment of canvases and skin glue as well as colors? Wishing you good health and a happy new year..."