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In February of 1889 — two months after he cut off his ear — van Gogh’s neighbors in Arles launched a petition to have the erratic artist institutionalized and removed from the iconic Yellow House, his home and studio. Van Gogh believed that 80 people had signed the petition, which upset him gravely. But only 30 people had signed it.
It was the night before Christmas Eve in 1888 – a cold Sunday evening in the French city of Arles – when Vincent Van Gogh took the razor he kept on his small dressing table and slashed off his...
On December 23, 1888, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, suffering from severe depression, cuts off the lower part of his left ear with a razor while staying in Arles, France. He later...
Most anyone who's had a beginning art history class knows the story of how the great Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh sliced off part of his left ear during a fit of madness. Now a team of...
On the 23rd of December 1888, in a small house in Arles in the South of France, one of the most famous artists of all time — Vincent Van Gogh — feverishly cut off his own ear in a...
Some believe the event with his ear was the consequence of a mental episode. Van Gogh struggled with epilepsy, and some speculate that he may have chopped off his ear during a seizure. Van Gogh was discovered almost comatose the next morning by his companion and fellow artist, Paul Signac.
A Vincent Van Gogh scholar has found a document explaining exactly how much of his ear the artist cut off back in 1888. Not only does the newly found diagram end a longstanding debate over the extent of van Gogh's ear mutilation, it also debunks the myth that he gave his ear to a woman named Rachel, a thought-to-be prostitute.
He then wrapped the bloody ear in a cloth, left his house on Place Lamartine, and went to the Rue du Bout d'Arles in the heart of the red-light district. Knocking on the door of a brothel,...
It is one of the greatest and bloodiest mysteries in art: what happened on the December night in 1888 when Vincent van Gogh took a blade to his own ear?Jerem...
Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear when tempers flared with Paul Gauguin, the artist with whom he had been working for a while in Arles. Van Gogh’s illness revealed itself: he began to hallucinate and suffered attacks in which he lost consciousness. During one of these attacks, he used the knife.