![]() ![]() While most art historians agree that Van Gogh killed himself, that assumption has been questioned in recent years, with some researchers claiming that the fatal shot may have been fired accidentally by two local boys playing with the weapon in the field. Two years earlier in 1888, he cut off his ear before offering it to a woman in a brothel in Arles in the south of France. It was not his first dramatic act of self-harm. He died 36 hours later after staggering wounded back to the auberge in the dark. The Dutch artist had borrowed the gun from the owner of the inn in the village where he was staying. While Art Auction, who are selling the gun, say there is no way of being absolutely certain that it is the fatal weapon, tests showed it had been in the ground for 75 years, which would fit. Discovered by a farmer in 1965 in the same field where the troubled Dutch painter is thought to have fatally wounded himself, the gun has already been exhibited at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
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