TY - BOOK AU - Murphy,Bernadette TI - VAN GOGH'S EAR: True Story SN - 9781784740627 U1 - 759.9492 PY - 2016////01/01 CY - London PB - Chatto & Windus KW - History and perons of painting KW - Story-journey of discovery KW - Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890--Biography KW - Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890--Mental health KW - Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890--Homes and haunts--France--Arles N1 - "The best-known and most sensational event in Vincent van Gogh's life is also the least understood ... Murphy [posits], for the first time, the true story of this long-misunderstood incident, sweeping away decades of myth and giving us a glimpse of a troubled but brilliant artist at his breaking point"--Dust jacket flap. ------------------- He's known as the tortured genius who cut off his own ear, but two German historians now claim that painter Vincent van Gogh lost his ear in a fight with his friend, the French artist Paul Gauguin. --------------------------- ER -