Chapter 3: Disappointment and Discovery

1.       Victor Doiteau and Edgar Leroy, ‘Vincent van Gogh et le drame de l’oreille coupée’, Aesculape, No. 7, July 1936.

2.       Martin Bailey, ‘Drama at Arles: New light on Van Gogh’s Self-Mutilation’, Apollo, London, 2005.

3.       Letter RM20, Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh and Jo Bonger-van Gogh, Auvers-sur-Oise, 24 May 1890 (VGM).

4.       Eugène Boch (1855–1941), Belgian artist.

5.       Bailey, ‘Drama at Arles’.

6.       Eventually, after many months trawling through newspaper archives in Provence, I was able to tell Martin Bailey that the extract he had found came from a newspaper called Le Petit Méridional, dated Saturday 29 December 1888. However, I haven’t yet been able to find the original article mentioned as having been published the ‘previous Wednesday’ (Bibliothèque Inguimbertine, Carpentras, France).

7.       Letter 6, Theo van Gogh to Jo Bonger, 28 December 1888, in Brief Happiness: The Correspondence of Theo van Gogh and Jo Bonger (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam: 1999).

8.       Ronald Pickvance was the first person to point out this detail about the façade.

9.       Paul Signac (1863–1935), letter to Gustave Coquiot, 6 December 1921, transcribed in the Coquiot notebook (VGM).

10.     See the Buckman archive (VGM).

11.     Lust for Life, directed by Vincente Minnelli and George Cukor, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, 1956. Starring Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh and Anthony Quinn as Paul Gauguin.

12.     The Margaret Herrick Library, Los Angeles, California.

13.     Letter from the editors of Life magazine to Edward Buckman, 30 June 1955 (VGM).