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Barney Davis

Van Gogh gallery underfire for selling ‘insensitive’ £6 ear-aser

Two paintings both titled 'Self-Portrait' are hung side-by-side at the Courtauld Gallery

(Picture: Matt Crossick/PA Wire)

A Vincent van Gogh exhibition is under fire for selling gifts branded ‘insensitive’ to the mental illness that plagued the great artist throughout his life.

15 of Van Gogh’s self-portraits - including his infamous self-portrait with bandaged ear after he cut it off - are on display at the Courtauld Gallery, in Somerset House.

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