Necktie featuring famous artist Vincent van Gogh's "Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear." Story has it that on the evening of December 23, 1888, Van Gogh in a fit of rageful excitement during an heated argument with another painter, accidentally cut his own ear off with a knife, consequently, dismembering a significant portion of it. The portrait was said to have been painted in 1889 and currently on display at the Gallery of the Somerset House in London.