Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Vincent van Gogh self-portrait

Vincent van Gogh: “Self-portrait with bandaged ear”, January 1889
Vincent van Gogh has a legendary story. In December 1889 van Gogh threatened Paul Gauguin with a razor. Then he cut off the lower part of his own left ear which he then he wrapped it in a newspaper and gave it to the one he loved which was a prostitute named Rachel in the local brothel, asking her to "keep this object carefully".













The reason that van Gogh interests most people is that he is crazy from the lead poisoning.

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