Émile Bernard

It's a conversation between some of Gauguin's friends, his painter friends especially, and this was at the Café Voltaire, a little place they all frequented, where his friends arranged a little exhibition of his paintings, hoping to sell some, right before he got on the boat and went to Tahiti.

And Degas speaks, and Pissarro, and a guy named Emil Bernard, who was kind of a younger friend, a younger painter, friend of Paul's.

And I even kept Van Gogh in it, even though he had passed away a year before.

It was the one thing, I hope the only thing that I sort of altered, you know, from reality.