GAUGUIN Paul (1848-1903) Signed autograph letter addressed to the "unknown amateur" enriched with an original drawing S.l., [circa 1896], 1 page in-4 in ink with ink drawing enhanced with red pencil on lined paper. Size: 20,6 x 17 cm. Under frame. (Slight folding and tearing). Letter in ink on paper illustrated with an original drawing in ink on paper enhanced with red pencil. "To the unknown amateur of my works. Hello - May he excuse the barbarity of this tableautin; such dispositions of my soul are probably the cause of it. I recommend a modest frame and if possible a glass, which, while refining it, preserves its freshness by preserving it from the alteration that the miasmas of the apartment always produce. Paul Gauguin ". PROVENANCE Collection of Alex and Elisabeth Lewyt; Daniel Wildenstein, Paris and New York; Dr. Nolet, Nantes (purchased from the artist in Tahiti). BIBLIOGRAPHY John Rewald, Gauguin Drawings, New York, 1958, illustration pl. 98; Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, Paris, 1964, cited p. 210; Ronald Pickvance, The Drawings of Gauguin, New York, 1970, illustration pl. 83; The Annenberg Collection (exhibition catalogue), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia & The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1990, illustration p. 186.