出人意料的是,对于一个影响如此深远且后果可怕的行为,人们对导致文森特·梵高在三十七岁就英年早逝的这一意外事件所知甚少。总的说来,可以肯定的是他死于一八九○年的七月二十七日,在巴黎以北二十英里外的奥威尔镇或是附近所受的枪伤。受伤发生在他在所居住的旅店吃完午饭后,带着绘画工具外出去画画的某个时间。在晚饭刚过的时候,他回到了拉乌旅店,上腹部中弹。他请了医生来治疗,但他的伤口却是致命的。大约在三十个小时之后,文森特离开了人世。 Surprisingly, little is known of an accident that caused Vincent Van Gogh to die young at the age of 37 for an act of far-reaching and terrible consequences. All in all, it is certain that he died on July 27, 1890, from a gunshot wound at or near Orwell, twenty miles north of Paris. The injury occurred sometime after he had gone out to paint with his painting tools after having had lunch at his hotel. Just after dinner, he returned to Hotel La Wu, shot in the abdomen. He asked a doctor for treatment, but his wounds were fatal. About thirty hours later, Vincent passed away.