Vincent Van Gogh expert doubts 'accidental death' theory

"Van Gogh: The Life", by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, was published on Monday, and media coverage has centred on its claim that Van Gogh may have been accidentally shot by two boys whom he then tried to protect.
The painter, who suffered from depression, cut off part of an ear, committed himself to an asylum and is widely believed to have ended his own life at age 37. He died in 1890, two days after suffering a gunshot wound to his chest.
Leo Jansen, curator at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, said there were still unresolved issues surrounding Van Gogh's apparent suicide, including why the artist decided to kill himself and what happened to the gun which was never found.
"Naifeh and Smith re-evaluate the known facts and present the hypothesis that two boys were involved in a mysterious incident that led to the fatal shot," he said in a statement issued by the museum.
Jansen called the theory "intriguing" but inconclusive."
Telegraph