Posthumous fame of Vincent van Gogh Hommes d’aujourd’hui." Julius Meier-Graefe wrote influentially of Van Gogh, his publications including: "Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst" (Stuttgart, 1904 and later Munich 1927), "Über Vincent van Gogh", Sozialistische Monatshefte (February 1906), "Vincent van Gogh" (Munich 1912), and "Van Gogh der Zeichner" (Berlin, 1928, published by Otto Wacker). In the English-speaking world, the Bloomsbury art critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell were his first champions. Fry, in a 1924 essay, "Vincent van Gogh," reported that after Van Gogh's death, he "disappeared" and "scarcely any picture dealer in Bond Street gave him another thought" until the 1910 show titled "Post Impressionist Exhibition" in
Death of Vincent van Gogh death; furthermore, in private correspondence, van Gogh described suicide as sinful and immoral. The authors also question how van Gogh could have traveled the mile-long (about 2 km) distance between the wheat field and the inn after sustaining the fatal stomach wound, how van Gogh could have obtained a gun despite his well-known mental health problems, and why van Gogh's painting gear was never found by the police. Naifeh and Smith developed an alternative hypothesis in which van Gogh did not commit suicide, but rather was a possible victim of manslaughter or foul play. Naifeh and Smith point out that