When Did Vincent Cut off His Ear
On December 23, 1888, Dutch Painter Vincent Van Gogh, Suffering from Severe Depression, Cuts off the Lower Part of His Left Ear with a Razor While Staying in...
On December 23, 1888, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, suffering from severe depression, cuts off the lower part of his left ear with a razor while staying in Arles, France. He later documented the event in a painting titled Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear.
Why did Vincent cut off part of his ear?
Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear when tempers flared with Paul Gauguin, the artist with whom he had been working for a while in Arles. Van Gogh’s illness revealed itself: he began to hallucinate and suffered attacks in which he lost consciousness. During one of these attacks, he used the knife.
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When did he cut off his ear?
On the 23rd of December 1888, in a small house in Arles in the South of France, one of the most famous artists of all time — Vincent Van Gogh — feverishly cut off his own ear in a mysterious act of self-mutilation. This is one of the most famous moments in art history… but why did he do it?
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