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Dr.F (Disgruntled Citizen) on Nostr: n December 1888, Vincent van Gogh cut off part of his own ear, wrapped it in paper, ...

n December 1888, Vincent van Gogh cut off part of his own ear, wrapped it in paper, and handed it to a prostitute. A few months later, frightened of himself and of what he might do next, he asked to be admitted to an asylum in Saint-Rémy, in the south of France.

He was thirty-six, and he would spend the next year there.

In the warmer months he painted the asylum garden, the olive groves, the hills. But winter came, and with it more attacks, and he could barely go outside.