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VINCENT VAN GOGH 1853-1890 
Nobody has ever painted cornfields or sunflowers like Van Gogh. His
paintings are full of colour and sunlight. Today his paintings are worth millions
of pounds but in his lifetime he only sold one. 
Van Gogh was born in Holland in 1853. He did not start painting until he
was twenty-seven, ten years before he died. Before becoming a painter, he was a
teacher, an art dealer and a church preacher. 
In 1886 he left Holland and joined his younger brother, Theo, who was
working in Paris at the time. After living there for two years, he moved to the
warmer climate of Arles in the south France. Here he painted some of his most
famous pictures. 
However, Van Gogh was mentally ill. During one of his fits of madness he
attacked his friend, the artist Paul Gauguin. In another fit of madness, Van Gogh
cut off part of his own ear. Eventually he went into a mental hospital but he did
not get any better. 
Finally, on Sunday 27th
 July 1890, in the small village of Auvers, north of
Paris, Vincent Van Gogh took a gun, went into a cornfield and shot himself.
When his brother Theo arrived, he said: “I hope I did it properly.” Thirty-six
hours later Van Gogh died in his brother’s arms. His last words were “La
tristesse durera”. (The sadness will continue.) 

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