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Oct 31, 2016 · After cutting off his ear Van Gogh put on his beret and dragged himself to a nearby brothel to give the severed earlobe, wrapped in paper, to a young woman recently identified as Gabrielle...
- Karla Pequenino
- It was the ear, the whole ear, and nothing but the ear. Until recently, historians had concluded that van Gogh only cut off the lobe. One eyewitness report seemed unequivocal: French artist Paul Signac, who visited van Gogh in the hospital shortly after the incident, had written in a letter that van Gogh “cut off the lobe” and “not the whole ear.”
- The ear was given to a cleaner at a brothel, not a prostitute. For a long time, the accepted story was that van Gogh gifted the bloody appendage to a woman named Rachel, a prostitute at the brothel van Gogh frequented while living in Arles, in southern France.
- The petition to kick van Gogh out of the Yellow House was a sham. 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.
Nov 24, 2009 · Learn about the bizarre incident on December 23, 1888, when the Dutch painter cut off his ear with a razor while staying in Arles, France. Find out why he did it, how he painted his self-portrait and what happened afterward.
Jul 12, 2016 · A new drawing by his doctor reveals that van Gogh sliced off most of his ear, not just a small part. The article also challenges other myths about his time in Arles and his relationship with Gauguin.
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...
How did Vincent van Gogh lose his ear in 1888? Explore the official narrative and the alternative theories, based on his letters, his relationship with Paul Gauguin, and his mental state.
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.
