It was the night before Christmas Eve in 1888 – a cold Sunday evening in the French city of Arles – when Vincent Van Gogh took the razor he kept on his small dressing table and slashed off his left ...

Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime. He was not a financially successful artist, and he was entirely dependent on his brother, Theo, to monetarily support his artistic vision.

The following script is from "The Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh" which originally aired on Oct. 16, 2011 and was rebroadcast on July 29, 2012. Morley Safer is the correspondent. David Browning, ...

Vincent Van Gogh. Penniless, unappreciated, isolated. A gentle soul suffering for his art, misunderstood by all. Fiction. All of it. No artist wears more mythology than Van Gogh. Surprising, since few ...

Every schoolchild knows that Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear. The bloody event occurred on Dec. 23, 1888. But how much he sliced away (the entire ear, a chunk of his earlobe, or a mutilation in ...