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- Aha oe feii, 1894, watercolour monotype with pen and red and black ink, Art Institute of Chicago (en)
- Gauguin in 1891 (en)
- Leda , 1889, zincograph on yellow paper with watercolour and gouache, Metropolitan Museum of Art (en)
- Riders on the Beach, 1902, Museum Folkwang (en)
- Valérie Roumi, 1880, carved and painted mahogany, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (en)
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- It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of the common task. (en)
- No one is good; no one is evil; everyone is both, in the same way and in different ways. … (en)
- I think in the Marquesas, where it is easy to find models , and with new country to explore – with new and more savage subject matter in brief – that I shall do beautiful things. Here my imagination has begun to cool, and then, too, the public has grown so used to Tahiti. The world is so stupid that if one shows it canvases containing new and terrible elements, Tahiti will become comprehensible and charming. My Brittany pictures are now rose-water because of Tahiti; Tahiti will become eau de Cologne because of the Marquesas. (en)
- In returning you will risk damaging that process of incubation which is taking place in the public's appreciation of you. At present you are a unique and legendary artist, sending to us from the remote South Seas disconcerting and inimitable works which are the definitive creations of a great man who, in a way, has already gone from this world. Your enemies – and like all who upset the mediocrities you have many enemies – are silent; but they dare not attack you, do not even think of it. You are so far away. You should not return... You are already as unassailable as all the great dead; you already belong to the history of art. (en)
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