Vincent Van Gogh’s relationship with Paul Gauguin, very well documented, was strained to say the least. They had a very short time together, a time that would end badly and prove to be agonizing for Van Gogh.   After weeks of attempts by letters to engage artists to join him in Arles, France, for what he perceived and imagined a utopia, an artist colony where the conversation would revolve around nothing but creating works, Van Gogh had one response in the positive. It was from Paul Gauguin. (It has been noted that the yes came only after the promise of...