Biographers think painter (Vincent van Gogh) was murdered

[The Straight Story]

Biographers think painter was murdered

A new book about Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh stands conventional wisdom about his death on its ear.

The product of 10 years of research, Van Gogh: The Life by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, asserts that the mercurial painter in 1890 was probably shot by rowdy teenagers in France and didn’t commit suicide, as the accepted story goes.

The authors base their claim on a thorough review of evidence, including the artist’s journals and letters; comments from attending physicians; and long-forgotten interviews with residents of the village Auvers-sur-Oise, where van Gogh died at age 37.

Leo Jansen, curator at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, called the theory “intriguing” but inconclusive.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2011/11/06/biographers-think-painter-was-murdered.html

[lumpy]

1. Anything to sell a book.

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[former9thward]

2. The most convincing argument that it was not suicide is that they could not find a gun.

Hard to kill yourself and then hide the gun. The book argues that it was probably an accidental shooting as opposed to premeditated murder.

[Coyote_Bandit]

3. Saw something on tv with these 2 authors

Seemed to be a compelling argument with a good amount of circumstantial evidence to support their conslusion.