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Input: Vincent van Gogh did not kill himself, the authors of new biography Van Gogh: The Life have claimed. 
  
 Vincent van Gogh Dutch painter largely unappreciated in his lifetime 
  
 Artistic career lasted just a decade, cut short when he died aged 37 in 1890 
  
 Posthumously revered for his richly-hued and impressionistic works such as Sunflowers and Starry Night The Van Gogh paintings we all own 
  
 Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith say that, contrary to popular belief, it was more likely he was shot accidentally by two boys he knew who had "a malfunctioning gun". 
  
 The authors came to their conclusion after 10 years of study with more than 20 translators and researchers. 
  
 The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam called the claim "dramatic" and "intriguing". 
  
 In a statement, however, curator Leo Jansen said "plenty of questions remain unanswered" and that it would be "premature to rule out suicide". 
  
 He added that the new claims would "generate a great deal of discussion". 
  
 Van Gogh died in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, in 1890 aged 37. 
  
 The Dutch master had been staying at the Auberge Ravoux inn from where he would walk to local wheat fields to paint. 
  
 It has long been thought that he shot himself in a wheat field before returning to the inn where he later died. 
  
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 But author Steven Naifeh said it was "very clear to us that he did not go into the wheat fields with the intention of shooting himself". 
  
 "The accepted understanding of what happened in Auvers among the people who knew him was that he was killed accidentally by a couple of boys and he decided to protect them by accepting the blame." 
  
 Analysis Van Gogh: The Life consists of 900-plus well-written pages of intensely researched biographical detail about an artist who, in 10 prolific years, introduced an expressionistic style of painting that changed art forever. In a short chapter at the end of the book, the authors start to make their case that Vincent van Gogh was shot by a 16-year old boy called Rene Secretan, who had a history of tormenting the troubled artist. On why he would cover for a boy he loathed, the authors reasoned, "because Vincent welcomed death" and didn't want to drag the brothers "into the glare of public enquiry… for having done him this favour". They lavish praise on their two main sources and pay little heed to the one person who was definitely there - Vincent van Gogh - when he quite clearly said: "Do not accuse anyone... it is I who wanted to kill myself." As they admit in the book, the truth of the matter is that, "surprisingly little is known about the incident". Which leaves, of course, plenty of room for conjecture. 
  
 He said that renowned art historian John Rewald had recorded that version of events when he visited Auvers in the 1930s and other details were found that corroborated the theory. 
  
 They include the assertion that the bullet entered Van Gogh's upper abdomen from an oblique angle - not straight on as might be expected from a suicide. 
  
 "These two boys, one of whom was wearing a cowboy outfit and had a malfunctioning gun that he played cowboy with, were known to go drinking at that hour of day with Vincent. 
  
 "So you have a couple of teenagers who have a malfunctioning gun, you have a boy who likes to play cowboy, you have three people probably all of whom had too much to drink." 
  
 He said "accidental homicide" was "far more likely". 
  
 "It's really hard to imagine that if either of these two boys was the one holding the gun - which is probably more likely than not - it's very hard to imagine that they really intended to kill this painter." 
  
 Gregory White Smith, meanwhile, said Van Gogh did not "actively seek death but that when it came to him, or when it presented itself as a possibility, he embraced it". 
  
 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Gregory White Smith and Steven Naifeh describe some of their findings for the book 
  
 He said Van Gogh's acceptance of death was "really done as an act of love to his brother, to whom he was a burden". 
  
 He said Van Gogh's brother, Theo, was funding the artist who, at that time, "wasn't selling". 
  
 Other revelations claimed by the authors include that: 
  
 Van Gogh's family tried to commit him to a mental asylum long before his voluntary confinement later 
  
 Van Gogh fought so furiously with his parson father that some of his family accused the artist of killing him 
  
 Van Gogh's affliction, viewed as a mix of mania and depression, was a result of a form of epilepsy 
  
 Gregory White Smith said the biography, published on Monday, helped to give a greater understanding of a "frail and flawed figure" and that his art would be seen "as even more of an achievement". 
  
 Thousands of previously untranslated letters written by the artist were among documents studied by the authors to create a research database containing 28,000 notes. ||||| A new book about the celebrated Dutch painter casts the popular belief that he shot himself in the chest in a field in France into doubt. 
  
 Van Gogh: The Life, by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, suggests that the most likely cause of Van Gogh's death is at the hands of a third party, believed to be a local boy. 
  
 The theory contradicts the accepted version of events, which holds that Van Gogh shot himself in a field, staggering more than a mile back to an inn where he was staying. Before dying 30 hours later, he was asked if he meant to commit suicide, and said: "Yes I believe so". 
  
 But this does not explain why the easel and brushes that he had taken to the fields with him that day, not to mention a gun, were never found, and nor was a suicide note. 
  
 The book questions whether the artist, who was known to have spent time in an insane asylum, could have got hold of a gun. 
  
 While Naifeh and Smith, accept that "no one knows what happened" , they set out an alternative scenario for the events in Auvers, France. 
  
 They believe that the fatal shot was fired by a 16-year-old boy named Rene Secretan, who was spending the summer at a villa nearby and whose complex relationship with Van Gogh included buying drinks for him and teasing him. 
  
 The authors claim Van Gogh didn't accuse the boy of shooting him because he welcomed death and didn't want the teenager to be punished. 
  
 Van Gogh died in 1890 aged 37. |||||
Output:
The accepted explanation for Vincent Van Gogh's death may be all wrong. While the standard story is that the artist shot himself in a field, managing to return to a nearby inn before he died, a new 900-page book paints a very different picture. In Van Gogh: The Life, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith postulate that a local teenager shot Van Gogh, likely accidentally, the Telegraph reports. The teen, one Rene Secretan, had formed an odd relationship with Van Gogh; he mocked the painter and bought him drinks. After the shooting, Van Gogh was asked whether he intended to kill himself; he said, "Yes, I believe so." Naifeh and Smith say the painter didn't want to get the boy in trouble and wanted to die anyway. They also write that the angle of the bullet's entry path isn't what you'd expect in a suicide. The authors' version, which the BBC notes is based on thousands of letters studied over a decade, helps explain why neither a gun nor a suicide note was found, but they acknowledge that "no one knows what happened."