where he largely spends with fellow painter Paul Gaugin, one of the few other of his contemporaries he truly admires; and Vincent's infamous self-mutilation of his left ear, leading to Theo's ...

In 1888, Gauguin spent two and a half tumultuous months in Arles in the south of France, where he and Vincent Van Gogh tried to start an artist colony (Vincent’s brother Theo was a Paris art ...