For his work "Night arlskoe Cafe" (1988, now in the RM), Paul Gauguin asked Madame Zhinu pose.
Later, in Saint-Remy, one of the preliminary portrait drawings, Van Gogh wrote several portraits Zhinu under the general title "L'Arlesienne" interpret from work to work the story of the portrait.
In one picture can be seen, even the titles to the woman - "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Rozhdestvennskie stories" of Dickens.
Here are the message-
From a letter to the Van Gogh Gauguin:
Цитата:
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portrait is, so to speak, the generic type arlezianskoy women, such generalizations - a rare phenomenon. Sun Poshu seen my picture as our joint work and the fruit of many months of our collaboration in Arles.
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Total Van Gogh wrote seven portraits of the owner of a cafe in Arles, Madame Zhinu - cafe, which he and Gauguin in the late 1880s often visited.
One picture is lost, and another five are in major museums. Sold May 2, 2006 at Christie's for 40.3 million dollars belonged to the family portrait of Van Gogh until 1928 and then was sold to American collectors Bakvinov family. Their successor, and set "L'Arlesienne" for sale.