- in original text:
...lettre – tu as bien raison de voir que ces négresses étaient navrantes – tu as bien raison de ne...
...Gauguin – c’est de la haute poesie ses négresses – et tout ce que fait sa main a un...
- in translation:
...you’re quite right to see that those negresses were heart-rending – you’re quite right not...
...think of Gauguin – they’re high poetry, his negresses — and everything his hand makes has a...
- in note 1:
...in the letter that Van Gogh is talking about the negresses in the paintings that Paul Gauguin had painted in...