Letter unearthed at UC Berkeley sheds light on Van Gogh’s ear
Thursday, July 14, 2016 - 11:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
According to “Lust for Life,” Irving Stone’s fictionalized biography of Vincent van Gogh, the artist “left only a tiny portion of the lobe” when he famously sliced off his ear. Other versions differ. Stone got that detail, it turns out, from Dr. Félix Rey, acknowledged in an author’s note at the end of the bestselling 1934 […]