Literary Notes

For more than a century, Vincent van Gogh’s death has been described as suicide. Yet the circumstances surrounding his final days have never stopped raising questions. Van Gogh died in July 1890 after suffering a gunshot wound in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. He survived for roughly two days before dying, but the exact circumstances of how he was shot were never fully resolved. No gun was found at the scene, there were no known witnesses to the shooting itself, and later researche

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