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Lot n° 88

GAUGUIN PAUL (1848-1903).

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L.A.S. "Paul Gauguin", Atuana February 1903, to Brigadier CLAVERIE: half page in-4. "In the name of the natives of Anaiapa, I have come to ask you to ask the administrator to revoke the dismissal of the native chief of this district for having given false testimony in court, which he acknowledged in front of witnesses heard by you"... The friendships of the painter Georges-Daniel de Monfreid and his relics of Gauguin (Jean Loize, 1951, n° 334).