Killing Vincent: The Man, The Myth, and The Murder

By Irving Kaufman Arenberg

On July 27, 1890, Vincent van Gogh came stumbling into his room in the Ravoux Inn, in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, bleeding from a wound in his abdomen. Thirty hours later, Vincent was dead. THe common myth, which has prevailed for over one hundred years, is that the "mad" artist shot himself in a wheatfield after suffering from years of u

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nostradamus and the 3 Maestros Productions
• Release date: Oct 30, 2018
• ISBN: 9780578505718

Irving Kaufman Arenberg

I. Kaufman Arenberg MD ([e-mail]) has studied and written about Vincent for over thirty years, and he never believed the nineteenth-century legend that the artist committed suicide. Now, he puts forth a different side of the story, one bolstered by new, twenty-first-century forensic evidence. In Killing Vincent: The Man, the Myth, and the Murder, Arenberg strips back the layers of misunderstanding surrounding Vincent's final days to determine once and for all if the painter really shot himself-or if he was murdered.

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