In 125 years, millions of people have looked at this painting. No one really saw it until recently.

In 125 years, millions of people have looked at this painting. No one really saw it until recently.

Vincent van Gogh never got to enjoy his own historic success as an artist (even though we've been able to imagine what that moment might have looked like). Van Gogh died in 1890 at the age of 37 in Auvers-sur-Oise, France after shooting himself in the chest with a revolver. It was a tragic end to a turbulent life marked by mental instability and severe self-doubt. According to the Van Gogh Museum, in a letter to his brother Theo in 1890, just a …