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OCR: Japanese prints: These inexpensive multicalor prints on paper were made in Japan and imported Europe Van Gogh's interest ir Japanese woodblock prints coincided with his 1886 stay among the Parisian avant garde. After the Australian painter John Russell taught him the impor tance of the Japanese print in the formation f modern pictorialism, Vincent collected as many as he could afford In March 1887 Van Gagh exhibited his print collection the Cafe Tambourin but it was nat until late summer that he began t incorporate Japanese prints into the back graunds of his awn paintings multicalar forma tion moderr