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Vincent van Gogh, "Tree Roots" (1890)
A researcher claimed today to have discovered the exact spot where Vincent Van Gogh painted his last canvas before his mysterious death from a gunshot wound.
The tortured Dutch artist had been working on "Tree Roots", a jumble of brightly-coloured tree trunks, roots and stumps near Auvers-sur-Oise, north of Paris, on a hot July day in 1890 when he staggered back wounded to the village inn. Wouter van der Veen, of the Van Gogh Institute, which looks after the artist's room at the Auberge Ravoux where he spent his final 70 days, said most of the tangle of roots is still there, a stone's throw from the inn. Experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam have backed the finding, saying it was "an interpretation, but it looks like indeed it is true."
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It does look probable that the tree roots are the very ones seen and painted by Van Gogh and the tangle might well be interpreted as the mental struggle the artist went through during his lifetime and just before his death.