van Gogh not a suicide?

GrayMouser · 10-18-2011, 05:03 AM

A theory put out by a new biography of van Gogh says he was probably shot accidentally by a kid with a penchant for cowboy costumes and real guns

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They think that the fatal shot was fired by an adventurous 16-year-old boy named Rene Secretan, who was spending the summer at a villa nearby and whose complex relationship with Van Gogh included buying drinks for him and baiting him mercilessly. Secretan liked to wear a cowboy costume brought from Paris, which he accessorised with a real gun, an erratic old .380 calibre pistol, for shooting squirrels, birds and fish.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1226168323396

I'd always known he was supposed to have committed suicide, but I never heard about him shooting himself in the chest until a few weeks ago- I thought at the time it seemed a really bad way to go about it, but I put it down to him being so screwed up.

GrayMouser · 10-18-2011, 05:05 AM

errr, that's " van Gogh not a suicide"

***Earniel*** · 10-18-2011, 07:06 AM

Title corrected.

It's an interesting theory, and makes for a good story.

I didn't know he was shot in the chest either. I suppose that due to the ear, I always thought he'd had to have aimed for the head.

10-18-2011, 05:05 AM	#2
GrayMouser Elf Lord Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Ilha Formosa Posts: 2,068	errr, that's " van Gogh not a suicide" __________________ Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill

10-18-2011, 07:06 AM	#3
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	Title corrected. It's an interesting theory, and makes for a good story. I didn't know he was shot in the chest either. I suppose that due to the ear, I always thought he'd had to have aimed for the head. __________________ We are not things.

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