![]() ![]() That theory won fresh support from a new biopic of the artist starring Willem Dafoe, "At Eternity's Gate", in which the gun goes off after the two brothers get into a struggle with the bohemian stranger. While most art historians agree Van Gogh killed himself, that assumption has been questioned in recent years, with some claiming the fatal shot may have been fired accidentally by two local boys playing with the weapon in the field. "All these clues give credence to the theory that this is the weapon used in the suicide." ![]() Read also: Vincent van Gogh: Five things to know "Technical tests on the weapon have shown the weapon was used and indicate that it stayed in the ground for a period that would coincide with 1890," it said. Two years earlier, he cut off his ear which he offered to a woman in a brothel in Arles in southern France.Īuction Art said the farmer who found the gun in 1965 gave it to the former owners of the inn at Auvers-sur-Oise, whose family are now selling it. Nor was it his first dramatic act of self-harm. The bullet extracted from Van Gogh's chest was the same calibre as the one used by the Lefaucheux revolver. He died 36 hours later after staggering back wounded to the inn in the dark. The Dutch artist had borrowed the gun from the owner of the inn. ![]()
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