" I went back to work, even though the brush almost falls to my hand, and, knowing perfectly well what I wanted, I have painted three large paintings. There are vast expanses of wheat under troubled skies, and I had difficulty trying to express my sadness, extreme loneliness .
the evening of July 27, 1890, a Sunday, after going out to paint as usual in the countryside surrounding the country , suffering returned to the inn and took refuge in his room at once: they found him lying on his bed, confessed that he fired a revolver shot in the chest in a nearby field.
Dr. Gachet that could not estrargli the bullet and he just wrapped, and expressed to cheer him up, his hope of saving it, he explained that he had consciously tried suicide and that if he survived, he should try again.
" I wanted to kill me, but I not fire."
" I wanted to kill me, but I not fire."
refused to explain his gesture.
to his brother Theo confided: "My sadness will never end" .
to his brother Theo confided: "My sadness will never end" .
" Now let me return."
Shortly after he had a fit of suffocation, then lost consciousness and died towards the 'one-thirty in the morning on July 29.
In his pocket they found a letter sent to Theo: " I write a lot of things but I feel that it is useless ... In my work I risk my life and I have to compromise half my reason ... .
As the suicide, the pastor of Auvers refused to bless the coffin and the hearse was provided by a nearby municipality. On 30 July, the coffin, covered with a white cloth and covered with yellow flowers, was lowered into a pit near the wall of the small cemetery of Auvers.
A few months later also Theo Van Gogh was hospitalized in a Paris clinic for mental illness.
After an apparent improvement, he moved to Utrecht, He died January 25, 1891, six months later by his brother.
His remains were moved to Auvers and buried beside those of Vincent .
In his pocket they found a letter sent to Theo: " I write a lot of things but I feel that it is useless ... In my work I risk my life and I have to compromise half my reason ... .
As the suicide, the pastor of Auvers refused to bless the coffin and the hearse was provided by a nearby municipality. On 30 July, the coffin, covered with a white cloth and covered with yellow flowers, was lowered into a pit near the wall of the small cemetery of Auvers.
A few months later also Theo Van Gogh was hospitalized in a Paris clinic for mental illness.
After an apparent improvement, he moved to Utrecht, He died January 25, 1891, six months later by his brother.
His remains were moved to Auvers and buried beside those of Vincent .
[Elements of Biography from Wikipedia ]
