"UNSTABLE RELATIONSHIPS"
Vincent van Gogh's relationships with the other Impressionist painters were very unstable. In all cases, his tragic death was a turning point that marked a before and an after. For example, his relationship with Rochechouart, which from the beginning was one of frank enmity, softened a lot after van Gogh’s decease. On the contrary, his friendship with Toulouse-Lautrec, which had been extremely close during his lifetime, became turbulent after his passing. On the other hand, Gauguin's love-hate relationship with van Gogh was abruptly interrupted as a result of his death and they never spoke to each other again. It is speculated that Gauguin felt a sense of guilt when he learned of van Gogh's suicide, as he had already felt when he learned that his friend had cut off his ear, and even earlier, when one day both were walking through the countryside and van Gogh stumbled upon a stone and got scratched on his knee. Maybe Gauguin had placed the stone there expressly so that his f...