Gauguin 'cut off Van Gogh's ear'

Interesting. I know he painted a self portrait with his ear injury covered by a bandage.

I was under the impression that he suffered from tic delaroux and cut his ear off thinking it would ease the pain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigeminal_neuralgia (for those wondering what tic delaroux is)

I read this on the BBC earlier... I don't suppose we'll ever know for sure!

it would be good to see the original police reports.

art... is like fighting... you move your brush as you move your sword, you paint your picture just like zorro and when you fail to paint your picture, you start sculpting fail....

I know he held Gauguin in such high regard ( obsessed I think ) that I could see him taking the rap for it to protect him. IMO Gauguin was a loser addicted to himself and attention starved ... and strung the insecure Van Gogh around like a puppet. Which when Gauguin finally let Van Gogh down over impressionism ( basically calling Van Gogh's work a pile of dog droppings so to speak ) in which they argued and the ear incident was to have happened , sent Van Gogh into another break down. the same with Picasso. I remember learning that many believe he predated his painting to make it seem he was t... [More]

I know he held Gauguin in such high regard ( obsessed I think ) that I could see him taking the rap for it to protect him. IMO Gauguin was a loser addicted to himself and attention starved ... and strung the insecure Van Gogh around like a puppet. Which when Gauguin finally let Van Gogh down over impressionism ( basically calling Van Gogh's work a pile of dog droppings so to speak ) in which they argued and the ear incident was to have happened , sent Van Gogh into another break down. This is very plausible.

I bet it happened, they were friends and i bet he would lie to save his friends **** when they both came down, hahaha they are to cool.