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Four days after finding Van Gogh with a mutilated ear, Gauguin witnessed the guillotining of a murderer

Gauguin then went on to make a ceramic self-portrait with bleeding ears

Martin Bailey
25 October 2024
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Paul Gauguin’s Self-portrait Jug (spring 1889)

Design Museum Denmark, Copenhagen (photograph Pernille Klemp)