The following script is from "The Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh" which aired on Oct. 16, 2011.

More than a century after the death of Vincent Van Gogh, a researcher has made a discovery in an old postcard that sheds new light on the Dutch painter's last day.

Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous painters in history. His death, from alleged suicide, has been brought into question as potentially being an accidental homicide. Pulitzer-prize winning ...

Leo Jansen, curator of the Van Gogh Museum and editor of the artist’s letters, said the biography is a “great book,” but experts have doubts about the authors’ theory of his death in 1890 ...

Steve Naifeh and Greg Smith, Pulitzer prize-winning authors, began their research into the life of van Gogh 10 years ago. They soon began to question the widely accepted story of van Gogh's suicide.

The theory that Van Gogh’s death was murder (or manslaughter) first surfaced seriously in 2011, in a comprehensive biography by two American writers, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith.

Machteld van Laer, left, and Willem van Gogh, right, descendants of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, lay down sunflowers at his grave on the 125th anniversary of his death on July 29, 2015 in ...

Van Gogh did not paint the great works for which he is now famous until after he went south to Arles in 1888, just two years before his death. “Two years is a short time to make a reputation as ...

Experts at the Van Gogh Museum say they remain unconvinced by evidence in a new book that says the 19th century Dutch artist was accidentally shot by two teenagers and did not die from self ...