Reexamining the story of Van Gogh’s death
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Reexamining the story of Van Gogh’s death
The book opens with Vincent van Gogh’s final hours at the Ravoux Inn in 1890, then questions the long-standing account that he shot himself in a wheatfield. Its framing points to a historical investigation of the circumstances surrounding the artist’s death and the story that has come to define it. The focus is both biographical and interpretive: how a familiar account of a major artist’s life and death is treated as history, and what questions remain around it.
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On July 27, 1890, Vincent van Gogh came stumbling into his room in the Ravoux Inn, in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, bleeding from a wound in his abdomen. Thirty hours later, Vincent was dead. THe common myth, which has prevailed for over one hundred years, is that the "mad" artist shot himself in a wheatfield after suffering from years of unhappiness and "insanity". But is that what really happened?Killing Vincent is meant as a historical analysis and expos
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