Was Van Gogh Murdered? A new book says yes…

“Van Gogh: The Life” is written by Pulitzer winners Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. The book is 900-plus pages of intensely researched biographical detail about an artist who introduced a style of painting that changed art forever.

In one chapter a new theory on the death of Vincent Van Gogh emerges: that he did not commit suicide and was in fact shot by a teenage boy, named Rene Secretan, who was spending the summer at a villa nearby. Steven Naifeh states in an interview “it was either an accident, or a deliberate act”.

The authors talked about this on a program which aired this week:

Van Gogh: The Life…

This book “is an exquisitely detailed, compellingly readable, and ultimately heartbreaking portrait of creative genius Vincent Van Gogh…his impetus for turning to brush and canvas; and his move to Provence, where in a brief burst of incandescent productivity he painted some of the best-loved works in Western art”