Did Vincent van Gogh Trade Lives with A Scottish Doppel Gänger after A Failed Suicide Pact? We re Glad You Asked The Scottish art dealer Alexander Reid was called the artist’s twin. Was he more? Here’s a hot new conspiracy theory for you: Was Vincent van Gogh (http://www.artnet.com/artists/vincent-van-gogh/) really… Vincent van Gogh? The famous artist was once close friends with Scottish art dealer Alexander Reid, and the two looked so much alike that van Gogh’s portraits of his dopplegänger were misidentified as self-portraits for years. Now, a new book suggests the possibility that the two men, both depressed, agreed to swap lives, with van Gogh returning to Scotland and a successful career as a dealer—while Reid went on to cut off his ear and ultimately take his own life after painting such masterpieces as Starry Night. Scottish painter Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864–1950), who knew both men, wrote of their remarkable resemblance in his 1939 memoir, A Painter’s Pilgrimage Through Fifty Years (https://www.amazon.com/Painters-Pilgrimage-through-Fifty-Years/dp/1107559782): “The likeness was so marked that they might have been twins. I often hesitated, until I got close, as to which of them I was meeting. They even dressed somewhat similarly.” It’s also conceivable, technically speaking, that the … Meer lezen over Sarah Cascone – Did Vincent van Gogh Trade Lives with A Scottish Doppel Gänger after A Failed Suicide Pact? We re Glad You Asked