Vincent Van Gogh, perhaps the greatest and most influential painter of the nineteenth century, committed suicide at the age of thirty-seven. He sold only one painting in his lifetime. Was he motivated by mental illness or despair when he put a revolver to his chest or was his physician partly to bla
The Strange Death of Vincent van Gogh
β Scribed by Morgan, Ted
- Book ID
- 110492812
- Publisher
- New Word City, Inc.
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 234 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781612308180
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β¦ Synopsis
Vincent Van Gogh, perhaps the greatest and most influential painter of the nineteenth century, committed suicide at the age of thirty-seven. He sold only one painting in his lifetime. Was he motivated by mental illness or despair when he put a revolver to his chest or was his physician partly to blame? Here, in this short-form book by award-winning biographer and historian Ted Morgan, is the intriguing answer.
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