[Crowbob]

What is also fairly unique to Vincent and no doubt contributed to his position in art was the hundreds of letters he had written to his brother Theo. These letters and other correspondences from the hand of Vincent is collected in a volume called ‘Dear Theo’. Vincent was in no way intellectually compromised.

However, there is credible evidence that the famous psychotic break culminating in his presenting his partially-severed ear to a female ‘friend’ was preceded by episodes of Vincent eating his paints which, of course, contained cadmium, lead and arsenic.