Did a Teenager Kill Van Gogh?

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, two American writers, claim that Vincent Van Gogh did not commit suicide over a century ago, but was actually fatally shot by a friend’s brother.

According to Naifeh and Smith’s new book entitled Van Gogh: The Life, a friend’s teenage brother shot the artist in the French town of Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890. In the alternative, the writers theorize that two local boys accidentally shot Van Gogh while playing with a malfunctioning pistol.

60 Minute’s recent interview of Naifeh and Smith is below:

See Daniel Bates, Was Van Gogh shot dead by a teenager? Artist’s Suicide “a Myth”, Mail Online, Oct. 17, 2011; The life and death of Vincent van Gogh, pt. 1, 60 Minutes Overtime, Oct. 2011.