Carnet de dessin The precious notebooks and sketchbooks that Gauguin used to carry with him include quotations, notes and ideas as well as portraits of people and schemes for later paintings, which suggest how Gauguin reflected and studied before painting. Page 41 of the notebook shows the studies for Van Gogh's face and a finger holding the palette. These were notes to be used, along with the drawing on page 70, for the painting he made featuring Van Gogh while painting sunflowers. These sketches show a sketchy figure of Van Gogh with the famous sunflowers in front. These are precious documents just preceding Van Gogh’s crisis after a furious quarrel with between the two, during which Vincent himself threw his glass of absinthe on Gauguin's face. This quarrel led Gauguin himself to rashly leave Arles. This furious quarrel marked the breaking off between the two; Gauguin did not want to hear about Van Gogh anymore, who had turned for him into a mad visionary. Gauguin wrote in Avant et Après, his last memoir written in Tahiti: “In Arles I had the idea of making his portrait while he was painting a still life that he loved so much: a vase of sunflowers. Once the portrait was finished, he said to me: ‘I turned out well, but you painted me as if I were insane’.” That same evening the furious quarrel occurred. Femme de Tahiti (attr.) Part of the important collection of the famous art historian Giovanni Testori and Alain Toubas, the latter from the legendary Compagnia del Disegno in Milan, this artwork, discovered and studied by Testori, can be dated back to Gauguin's first trip to Tahiti in 1891, and almost certainly belongs to the set of artworks he imported just from this first trip. Included in a valuable French collection before being part of the Testori/Toubas collection, the painting was displayed in several exhibitions. Despite its reference to Verism, the composition is an attempt by Gauguin to represent the primitivity of this naked woman sitting on the ground, like a sort of primal Eve. Unaware of her own nudity, the woman is concentrating on her work inside her hut. Some blankets are thrown in bulk on the ground, with the woman crouched on them. The painting can be related to one of Gauguin's popular artworks, entitled Two Women from Tahiti, in which the pictorial subject matter and setting can be traced back to.