Van Gogh's ear
Subtitle: the true story
By: Bernadette Murphy
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780374279691
Subjects: Mental health; Homes and haunts
Other titles: Gogh's ear
Description: "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.
Notes: Originally published: Great Britain : Chatto & Windus, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.