Vincent van Gogh sneed heel zijn oor af
Vandaag werd bekend dat Vincent van Gogh niet een gedeelte van zijn oor, maar zijn gehele oor heeft afgesneden in een vlaag van verstandsverbijstering. Schrijfster Bernadette Murphy vond een brief terug van de dokter die Vincent van Gogh behandelde vlak na de gebeurtenis. De bevindingen zijn vanaf nu te lezen in een boek en te zien bij een tentoonstelling in het Van Gogh Museum.
Het oor van Vincent van Gogh blijft de gemoederen bezig houden. Hoe en waarom de schilder zijn oor afsneed is in mysteriën gehuld. Een paar jaar geleden werd nog de theorie gepresenteerd dat Paul Gauguin het oor van Vincent zou hebben afgesneden in een ruzie. Maar algemeen wordt aangenomen dat Van Gogh zelf een stukje van zijn oorlel afsneed, na een ruzie met Paul Gauguin op 23 december 1888. Van Gogh woonde destijds in Zuid-Frankrijk en liet zich kort hierna opnemen in een kliniek voor geesteszieken.
Vandaag wordt een nieuw hoofdstuk aan tientallen jaren Van Gogh onderzoek toegevoegd. In het boek Van Gogh’s Oor – het Ware verhaal laat Bernadette Murphy zien dat Van Gogh niet een klein deel van zijn oor, maar zijn volledige oor afsneed. Deze keer is het niet een nieuwe gekke theorie. Het degelijke onderzoek van Murphy kan deze beweringen onderbouwen. Ze heeft namelijk een brief terug gevonden van Dr. Félix Rey, de dokter die Van Gogh opzocht na de gebeurtenis. In de brief heeft Dr. Rey zelfs met een klein tekeningetje aangegeven hoe het oor precies is afgesneden.
Dr. Félix Rey en Rachel
Bernadette Murphy vond de brief van Dr. Rey terug in het archief van schrijver Irving Stone. Stone schreef in de jaren 30 een boek over Vincent van Gogh, dat in de jaren 50 als basis diende voor de film Lust for Life. Stone zocht bij zijn literatuuronderzoek contact met Dr. Félix Rey, die hem de brief met informatie over de verwonding van Van Gogh stuurde. De tekening in de brief laat zien dat vrijwel het gehele oor was afgesneden. Dit is in tegenstelling tot wat tot nu toe werd aangenomen op basis van het verhaal van de schoonzus van Vincent van Gogh. Zij was niet in Arles toen Van Gogh zijn oor afsneed, maar moet hem later nog wel gezien hebben. Zij sprak toen over ‘een deel van het oor’. Op de tekening van Rey is echter nog maar een heel klein oorlelletje over.
Nadat Van Gogh zijn oor afsneed, wikkelde hij het in een krant en bracht het naar Rachel, een vermeende prostituée. Bernadette Murphy wist ook de familie terug te vinden van Rachel bij het schrijven van haar boek. De kleinkinderen van Rachel vertelden aan Murphy hoe hun grootmoeder was getraumatiseerd door het voorval. Volgens haar verhaal, sneed Vincent van Gogh zijn oor af uit medelijden. Rachel was zijn schoonmaakster en had een groot litteken in haar gezicht. Door zijn oor af te snijden, creëerde hij een groot litteken bij zichzelf en probeerde hij haar lijden te verzachten.
Tentoonstelling en Boek
Het is kenmerkend voor de staat waarin Vincent van Gogh moet hebben verkeerd in deze dagen. Hij was serieus ziek en werd daarom door de buurtbewoners weggestuurd. Enkele maanden nadat hij zijn oor had afgesneden, liet Vincent van Gogh zich daarom opnemen in een kliniek in Arles. Hier spendeerde hij enkele maanden en schilderde hij de tuin met olijfbomen. In het Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is deze zomer een gehele tentoonstelling gewijd aan de waanzin van Vincent van Gogh. Ze tonen in deze tentoonstelling schilderijen uit deze tijd. Ook de brief van Dr. Rey en het wapen waarmee hij uiteindelijk zelfmoord pleegde, zijn nu te zien in Amsterdam.
Als dank voor alle hulp die Vincent van Gogh van Dr. Rey ontving, heeft Van Gogh ook een schilderij gemaakt van de arts. Dit portret hangt normaal in het Poesjkin Museum in Moskou, maar is voor de gelegenheid van deze tentoonstelling en de boekpresentatie tijdelijk te zien in het Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Vanaf komend weekend is de tentoonstelling ‘de Waanzin Nabij’ de hele zomer te bezoeken.
de Waanzin Nabij
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
15 juli t/m 25 september, 2016
Van Gogh’s Oor – het Ware verhaal
Bernadette Murphy
Uitgeverij Hollands Diep
I apologize for my bad English, but here count the facts.I am an italian scholar, Van Gogh specialist oeuvre.In May 1998 .The Independent make me an article on Sunday.On 2 March this year one article by Michael Day, correspondent by Rome of The Independent,on my discovery of the only photos of Van Gogh adult, has been around the world.I have read carefully the findings of Bernadette Murphy Gabrielle Berlatier, aka Rachel, and I also found out that she is the petite provençale, portrayed by Vincent in July 1888 as Mousme ‘, on the same days in which he talks to Theo of rabid dogs and the people admitted to the Institute Pasteur.I have discovered however, in contrast with what mrs.Murphy says, that the mother of Gabrielle was maid and worked for Vincent also for the beginning of July 1888 to February 4, 1889, in the yellow house for 20 francs at month.Gabrielle instead worked in the brothel rue du bout of Arles, but perhaps as a prostitute and not as maid.It is an exposed an anonymous visitor to the central Commissioner Joseph d’Ornano, of 7 November 1888, which warns that the mistress Virginie Chabaud, called Tarasconnaise, illegally prostituting a 16 year old “petite provençale”, perilous with venereal diseases (the document is still in the police archives) .The loyal relationship of Gabrielle and her mother with Vincent, must have been complicated after October 23, 1888, with the arrival of Gauguin in Arles, also notoriously unscrupulous in dealing with minor women.Here can be born disagreements and jealousies that have resulted in the ear cutting tragedy, December 23, 1888.
On the documentary by Bernadette Murphy, Retail 35.48, appears a picture.It is surely the click of a marriage, but why is put there so suddenly, almost out of context? And ‘what we now call an occult advertisement.Mrs. Murphy took this photo definitely grandchildren of Berlatier family, but can not tell who are the people.I tell.In a previous comment I realized that one of the women the center was just Gabrielle Berlatier, but I was not certain.I found the sketches of costumes in Arles, one is that young women wear as a wedding dress.One of the photo women wearing it, of course, and you know who ? Marie Albertine,sister of Gabrielle, younger than 9 years old, born in Moulès on September 16 1879 and married at 19, on April 27, 1898, a carpenter ebanist, Joseph Reynaud, born on November 11, 1870, the same year of Gabrielle.The bride is the second from right in the front row, her mother, Thérèse Jean is the third, and looks a lot like Gabrielle, which is the fifth, and the fourth would be the mother of the groom, which is on the bottom in the middle, elegant man with a beard and with hat.On background on the right another man, perhaps her or his father.On the women can be some other sister of Gabrielle.The history puzzle is slowly completing and I I had a good insight to discover at a glance the similarity with the portrait of Gabrielle and the mousmè.Certainly some difference, but we run 11 years between the photo and the portrait.
None of you have noticed an important detail in the wedding party photos of 27 April 1889? All the women wear a black ribbon in the chest by None of you have noticed an important detail in the wedding party photos of 27 April 1889? All the women wear a black ribbon in the chest by None of you have noticed an important detail in the wedding party photos of 27 April 1889? All the women wear a black ribbon in the chest by death in the family.There are all related with a person who recently died.The family Berlatier,growers,they dwelt at Moulès, a village about 10 km from Arles, which at the time had a thousand inhabitants, scattered among various mas.They are all relatives.At the marriage there are various families. July 17, 1898, exactly 8 months before, he dies at Moulès, Berlatier Pierre Marius, a baby of 15 months, son of Claude Berlatier, farmer and Marie Roustant Victorine.He is a nephew / cousin of Gabrielle Berlatier.It is the motivation because they bring the ribbon for death in the family. There confirms that I was right …. .
To do a final check on the wedding photos of 27 April 1899.Gabrielle Berlatier in 1888 December 23, when Vincent gives him his left ear wrapped, had just turned 19, but the Mousme said Vincent had among 12 and 14.Gabrielle time I had three sisters and a brother.The sisters have in the order, a 12/14 years old, a 9 years and around 5 years old.Can be that Mousme was her younger sister instead her.It is must verified, because it seems to me that the picture you see the broken arm …. If so, the Mousme would be the fifth from right in the photo, Gabrielle the third and their mom fourth.
I think Bernadette Murphy has made a mess, perhaps swapping Gabrielle Berlatier for another person, a certain Gaby, aka Rachel, to which Vincent gave the left ear.The maid was not her but she was the mother of Gabrielle Therese Jean and worked for Vincent, looking after the yellow house two times a week from mid-July 1888 to February 4 1889.The woman he was recommended by Roulin and Ginoux.Having in 1888 already a certain age, he still had minor children, 3 females and a male.Gabrielle Berlatier, was 18 (escaped the anger of a dog bite on January 8, 1888), the second, 12/14 years old (according to a statement of Vincent), we do not know the name but we know that Vincent gave her a portrait in July 1888, entitling it the Mousme, the third, Marie Albertine, was born September 16, 1879 and then was 9 years old, then a brother perhaps 5 years.This is what we know for now certainly on this family, besides the fact that the father Jean in 1888 was 56 years and died in 1903.The equation Gabrielle Berlatier = Gaby = Rachel is arbitrary.Just 6 November 1888 on the desktop of the central commissioner of Arles Joseph d’Ornano came an anonymous letter alleging that the madame of the brothel rue du Bout d’Arles 1, Virginie Chabaud, called the tarasconnaise, had begun to prostitution a certain “petite Provence”, asking intervention.If this girl was Gabrielle Berlatier is yet to be demostrating.Consequently we still on the smog.The Berlatier three sisters and mother, are identifiable in the photo of the wedding of Marie Albertine, April 27, 1899.
There is something that does not convince me in searches of Bernadette Murphy Gabrielle Berlatier.The cleaning lady of Ginoux, the brothel and Vincent himself was not her, but she was the mother, Thérèse Jean, who also cleaned the yellow house together the postman Roulin from blood, after the crime the night of 23 December 1888.And he kept serviced even after Vincent was discharged from the hospital until February 4, according to the pastor Salles.If Rachel (the petite Provence?), was she was his daughter, but I think she would have accepted a job to Vincent and granted other minor daughter pose in July for the portrait of Mousme? And Vincent would attend and had intercourse in the brothel with Gabrielle, knowing that her mother went to him twice a week to clear the house? Here he was committed an fenomenal mistake.Because was the mother and not Gabrielle was going to work as a maid in the evening also in the brothel and perhaps that evening at the scene and spoke with polisman.He was the mother of Gabrielle and the policeman Alphonse Robert, in 1929, more than 40 years after the fact, he did not remember much and made confusing, confusing her daughter to her mother, calling instead Gaby.The newspapers reported the right saying that Vincent gave ear to Rachel.In the documentary Murphy puff a hospital registry of the time, where there are at least two prostitutes named Rachel hospitalized for disorders of the genitourinary system, but with a last name that does Berlatier.One of these two might be petite provençale of anonymous letter of 6 November 1888.And however Gabrielle and Rachel were not the same person.Vincent is to Rachel who handed her left ear, not Gabrielle Berlatier.Finally, Mousmè in 1888 was about 12/14 years old, her sister Gabrielle Berlatier had 18 and Rachel, according to Pierre Leprohon he was only 16 and the mistress Virginie Chabaud made her work as prostitute.These are three different people, not the same person, as I thought until recently.
Another small step towards the truth ….
I’m doing research on Rachel Bondon, indicated in the list of prostitutes treated at the hospital in Arles, for venereal diseases, the period of Vincent.The surname Bondon was infrequent in Arles, one family of Jacques Bondon, profession boulanger (baker) , who had four children, two males and two females, were born between 1877 and 1880.If Rachel had 16/18 years in 1888, was born in 1870 / 72.But is illogical that a baker send her daughter into prostitution in the same where he lives ….. But in the Provencal village of Boulbon, between Arles and Avignon, near Tarascon, the Bondon were several, especially femmine.I think that Rachel received the ear by Vincent it is precisely Rachel Bondon, the petite provençale of 16/18 years, coming from the same country of Virginie Chabaud, the madam, called the tarasconnaise, because Boulbon is only about 8 km from Tarascon.If my intuition is correct, this would be mentioned in a petite provençale exposed anonymous November 6, 1888, addressed to the Commissioner of central Arles, Joseph d’Ornano as trafficked into prostitution and suffering from venereal diseases.