Adeline even named one of the gendarmes as Rigaumont.
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I am free to do what I like with my own body.” Surely the police would have followed up if they had harboured any suspicions of foul play. The artist had told the police: “What I have done is nobody else’s business.
His daughter, Adeline Ravoux (who was 13 at the time of the incident), later reported that her father had often spoken about Van Gogh. No police records about the shooting survive, but Bernard also informed Aurier that the innkeeper, Arthur Ravoux, had told him about “the gendarmes who came to his bed to reproach him for an act for which he was responsible”. Gauguin knew Van Gogh well from their time together in the Yellow House in Arles, where their collaboration had come to an abrupt end with the ear incident, and he was only too aware of his friend’s fragile mental condition. Although Gauguin was in Brittany at the time, he remained in touch with Vincent’s circle of friends. In Gauguin’s memoir, Avant et Après, he wrote that “Van Gogh shot himself in the stomach”. Paul Gauguin, Self-portrait given to Van Gogh (1888) © Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation) 4. Two weeks after Vincent’s death, he wrote again to Theo, explicitly using the word “suicide”. Had there been anything to suggest possible foul play, he would presumably not have let the matter rest. Dr Gachet had inspected the wound and spoken with Vincent. Vincent’s doctor believed it was suicideĪ few hours after the shooting, Vincent’s doctor, Paul Gachet, wrote to the artist’s brother, Theo van Gogh, to break the news that “he has wounded himself”. Here are ten reasons why it was suicide: 1. The murder story is yet another myth that has been added to those which have come to surround the artist. However, I remain convinced that the traditional view that Van Gogh shot himself is correct he was not killed by Secrétan. The murder/manslaughter theory was subsequently taken up in different ways in two acclaimed films, the painted-animation Loving Vincent (2017) and artist Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate (2018). He then protected Secrétan by claiming it was suicide. Naifeh and Smith argued that Van Gogh “welcomed death” and therefore the unexpected shooting. The two authors based their theory on their imaginative interpretation of an interview that Secrétan gave in 1957, a few months before his death. Van Gogh managed to stagger back to his inn, dying two days later from his wounds. They wrote that Van Gogh was shot in the abdomen on 27 July 1890 by 16-year-old René Secrétan, a summer visitor in Auvers-sur-Oise who taunted the artist.
The theory that Van Gogh’s death was murder (or manslaughter) first surfaced seriously in 2011, in a comprehensive biography by two American writers, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. The story of his extraordinary life has always excited just as much interest as his pathbreaking art. Authorities said the shooting appears to be gang-related.Īnyone with information on the shooting is urged to call the Sheriff's Homicide Bureau at 32, or Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS.Ĭity News Service contributed to this report.A few years ago, the question I was most often asked about Vincent van Gogh was, “Why did he cut off his ear?” Now it's, “Did he commit suicide, or was he actually murdered?” No arrests were reported and no suspect information has been released. He will be greatly missed by all and forever remembered." Carl Lewis was an extremely talented young man, who was a valued member of the team. "Our hearts hurt and words cannot express the loss. Lewis' basketball team, Logan Stutz Sudbury Five, issued the following statement, in part: He died at the scene, according to the coroner's office and the sheriff's department. Homicide detectives were sent to the 400 block of West Alondra Boulevard, around the corner from Compton High School, about 10:45 a.m., according to Deputy Trina Schrader of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.Ĭarl Edward Lewis III, 19, of Lynwood was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds in his torso, Schrader said. (KABC) - Police are looking for the gunman in a shooting, which authorities believe is gang-related, that left a 19-year-old man dead in Compton on Tuesday.
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