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Entire world has believed for years that Vincent van Gogh had killed himself, but forensic research now says the iconic Dutch artist may have been murdered.
The gunshot wound that ended Van Gogh’s life after 29 days of agony was ‘not self-inflicted’, Dr Vincent Di Maio, a forensic expert specialising in gunshot injuries, has claimed, reports The Independent.
The celebrated painter, who had lived a life of penury, had been found alive with bullet injuries in a wheat field near Paris.
He had told the police that he had shot himself to end his life.
But Maio, who has researched the forensic reports on Van Gogh’s abdominal bullet wound, says the nature of the injury suggests it was not self-inflicted.
In other words, someone else had shot the famous ‘Sunflower’ artist.
The Independent says Maio proffered his views following a request by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, whose biography of Van Gogh questions the well-entrenched suicide theory.
In their book, ‘Van Gogh: The Life’, the Pulitzer-winning authors, say the artist had probably been shot, accidentally, by boys in that field, and Van Gogh had taken the blame on himself to protect them.
In fact, John Rewald, an American academic, says he had heard way back in the 1930s stories in local circulation that speak of such an incident that killed the painter.
The authors sought Maio’s opinion after their book provoked a barrage of academic attack.
Two of their critics had written in a review that the son of Van Gogh’s physician had said there was a “brown and purple halo” round the artist’s wound.
This indicated, the critics claimed, that the bullet had been fired from a very close range.
But Maio dismissed the premise, saying it ‘means nothing’, the paper reports.
A clinching proof of suicide would have been the presence of ‘soot, powder tattooing and searing of the skin around the entrance’ of the bullet, Maio maintains.
He says none of these marks that should have been prominently visible have been mentioned in the forensic accounts, making the suicide theory untenable.
The shot, he maintains, was more likely to have been fired from a distance of about two feet as the forensic findings seem to suggest.
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