Despite assertions from a recent biography on Vincent Van Gogh, the claim that he was murdered instead of committing suicide has been refuted by a number of experts, including some who helped write the book...take a look...
http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Van-Gogh%E2%80%88murder-mystery-or-straightforward-suicide/30016
Not that I've read the book or looked closely at their evidence, but I'd expect the experts have it right. Still, it's interesting to think how art history might be different if Van Gogh hadn't become the epitome of the starving, lonely, depressed artist and had, instead, been murdered in the prime of his career...
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