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OCR: LIFE He met Paul Gauguin in Paris and when he settled in Arles, Provence in 1888, Gauguin joined him there. After a quarrel, van Gogh cut off part of his own earlobe, and in 1889 he entered an asylum; the following year he committed suicide. His numerous works (over 800 paintings and 700 drawings) include still lifes, portraits (many of himself) and landscapes, including "The Starry Night" (1889, Museum of Gogh Modern Art, New York) and "Crows over Wheatfield" (1890, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam). The Arles paintings vividly testify to his intense emotional involvement in his art. "Irises" (1889) was sold for the record price of $53.9 million at Sotheby's, New York in 1987.