WHAT GREAT PAINTINGS SAY
Mar 17, 2022
3 minutes
WORDS: CHARLOTTE HODGMAN
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
by Vincent van Gogh, January 1889
7 January 1889, Vincent van Gogh was discharged from hospital after one of the most traumatic events of his life. Heavily bandaged and missing his left ear, which he had violently mutilated some two weeks earlier while in the throes of a mental crisis, the 35-year-old artist made his way home. In a letter to his younger brother, Theo, 10 days later, he seemed cautiously optimistic for the future but still mentally
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