unhistorical: July 27, 1890: Vincent van Gogh shoots himself. He died two days later, at age thirty-seven. In late 1888, van Gogh, desperate and growing increasingly unstable, had confronted his friend Paul Gauguin with a knife, before using it to cut

unhistorical: July 27, 1890: Vincent van Gogh shoots himself. He died two days later, at age thirty-seven. In late 1888, van Gogh, desperate and growing increasingly unstable, had confronted his friend Paul Gauguin with a knife, before using it to cut

unhistorical: July 27, 1890: Vincent van Gogh shoots himself. He died two days later,