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Why did Vincent van Gogh invite Paul Gauguin to live in Arles?
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Vincent van Gogh
Self-Portrait, oil on artist's board on cradled panel by Vincent van Gogh, 1887; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Vincent van Gogh invited Paul Gauguin to Arles because he hoped to establish a working community of artists, which he called the "Studio of the South".12
Van Gogh believed that certain artistic goals were beyond the capacity of an isolated individual to achieve alone. By gathering like-minded painters who shared his aims, he sought to create a collaborative environment for producing a new, personally expressive form of art. Gauguin eventually arrived in Arles in October 1888, partly as a favor to Vincent’s brother, Theo van Gogh, who had agreed to represent him.21