Van Gogh’s Suicide Gun
The rusty 7 mm revolver that Van Gogh allegedly used for killing himself with in 1890 has sold for €162,500 ($183,000) in an auction. Is the auctioned pistol really the same weapon the painter had used on July 27, 1890 to kill himself? The pistol, a Lefaucheux, was found in the same field where the artist was shot by a farmer in the 1960s. It is impossible to confirm but the auctioneer M. Grégoire Veyrès indicated that the identity of the...
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