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The Starry Night (1889)

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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Vincent Van Gogh's Death

Van Gogh was a little bit in the scene and starting to get noticed. Two months before he died, he had 10 paintings shown in a major exhibition. One of them sold for a sum of 400 francs - which was apparently big money at the time. He might have been on the verge of getting more notice when he died possibly killing himself.

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