The bulk of Van Gogh’s most famed paintings were done in Arles, southern France, where the artist decamped after becoming disillusioned with city life. He moved into what became known as the ‘Yellow House’, attempting to create an Airbnb/co-working space for artists, with painter Paul Gaugin as his first tenant. His painting of the Yellow House hangs in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

The trigger for history’s most famed act of self-mutilation was Gaugin’s announcement that he would be ending their nine-week countryside bromance at the Yellow House. Distraught, Van Gogh cut off a part of his left ear, then hand-delivered this trophy to a local brothel – an act which contributed to his ejection from the city and voluntary institutionalisation in Saint-Rémy de Provence.