Van Gogh gun: The revolver painter is thought to have shot himself with set to be sold at auction /5wRmq4iRiZ- Márcio M. "It has been deeply criticized by all the Van Gogh specialists, among them the Van Gogh Museum and Alain Rohan, who wrote a book about the gun." The revolver with which Vincent van Gogh is believed to have shot himself goes under the hammer at a Paris auction house on Wednesday. "The new theory about the killing is based on testimonies given several years after Van Gogh's death", an AuctionArt spokesperson said to the art news site. The auction house dismisses this suggestion. Schanbel and the screenwriter of the biopic believe that the number of paintings Van Gogh created in the final months of his life does not correspond to someone who was suicidally depressed, according to Artnet. It was previously exhibited in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.Ī biopic of Van Gogh's life by artist Julian Schnable, titled At Eternity's Gate, raised speculation that Van Gogh did not take his own life, but was instead accidentally shot by two boys playing with a gun. According to the auction house, scientific tests indicate that the gun was fired around 1890 and then spent decades lying on the ground. The revolver was returned to the innkeeper's family in 1965, by a farmer who found it in a field. It is widely believed by art historians that Van Gogh took his own life, as the artist was known to self-harm - the most famous incident of this was when he cut off his own ear in 1888. The unnamed buyer bought the corroded 7mm caliber Lefaucheux revolver for 162,500 (£144,000 182,000), almost three times more than expected. The wounded artist returned to his accommodations that night, but passed away some 36 hours later. The gun believed to have been used by Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh to take his own life was sold at the Drouot auction house in Paris on June 19, 2019, as the most famous weapon in art history. It is thought that the artist borrowed the gun from the innkeeper and then shot himself in a field. The gun is being sold by the family of a local innkeeper in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise, where Van Gogh spent the last months of his life. The Lefaucheux pinfire revolver was found by a peasant around 1960 in the field where the artist was fatally wounded and it will be put on auction June 19. And if Van Gogh is Van Gogh, it’s because of his suicide and this gun is part of it. The gun believed to be used by painter Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) to shoot himself on July 27, 1890, in Auvers-sur-Oise is presented by Drouot auction house in Paris, France, June 14, 2019. Auction house AuctionArt believes the 7 mm Lefaucheux revolver, which it dubbed "the most famous weapon in art history", will be sold for between 40 thousand and 60 thousand euros, Artnet reports. An anonymous phone bidder took home the Lefaucheux revolver, its casing heavily rusted and the inlay of the curved handle missing, for more than double the highest estimate put on it by experts at auction house Drouot. The revolver it is widely believed Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh used to take his own life in 1890, will be going up for auction in Paris on June 19th.
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