Vincent Van Gore

Vincent Van Gore
Full name	Vincent Van Gore, the Starving Artist
Age	59
Biography	Despite failing to sell a single painting in 30 years, this stubborn man refuses to let his art die.
Room	The Artist's Studio
HP	100
Heart quote	Now does he grasp zee power of my creations?

“Eet eez you, no? You interfere with my afterlife's work?”

—Vincent Van Gore, Luigi's Mansion

Vincent Van Gore, the Starving Artist, is a portrait ghost who appears in the game Luigi's Mansion and its remake. He has teal skin, white hair, a white mustache and pointed beard, and glowing green eyes. He wears a red beret, a deep green overcoat over a red and yellow striped shirt, and often carries his palette and paintbrush. Vincent Van Gore can bring his paintings to life. Only his English name suggests him to be a parody of Vincent van Gogh, despite having a stereotypical French accent instead of Vincent van Gogh's nationality of Dutch, but Vincent Van Gore's unlocalized name does not base him on any famous painter. His portrait number in Professor E. Gadd's gallery is 21.

Vincent Van Gore resides in The Artist's Studio, on the third floor of the mansion. When Luigi enters the room, the ghost expresses his anger at seeing his creations being vacuumed. In battle, Van Gore uses sets of seven ghosts to attack Luigi; each group consists of three (five in the PAL Hidden Mansion and remake) ghosts. In order, the seven following types of ghosts are Gold Ghosts, Purple Punchers, Blue Twirlers, Red Grabbing Ghosts, Red Ghost Guys, Garbage Can Ghosts, and Purple Bombers. After all of the ghosts are vacuumed, Vincent Van Gore becomes very angry by the loss of his artwork. In this state, his heart is exposed and Luigi can easily suck up the spirit with his Poltergust 3000. He is eventually sucked inside the Poltergust and drops the Secret Altar Key. He is the only non-boss ghost to give away a special key. After being sucked up, standard enemy ghosts such as Purple Bombers no longer spawn in dark hallways, though smaller ghosts like bats do continue to spawn.

Gallery

Luigi's Mansion

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Luigi's Mansion (Nintendo 3DS)

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Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	セニョール・プジイ[?] Senyōru Pujī	Spanish word señor ("mister") + possibly from「プー」(pū, an onomatopoeic word for "poof") and「爺」(jī, "old man")
French	Vincent Van Gore[?]	-
German	Vincent Van Geight, Unersättlicher Künstler[?]	Pun on "Vincent van Gogh" and Geist ("ghost"); Insatiable artist
Italian	Vincent Van Gong, Artista stravagante[?]	Pun on "Vincent van Gogh" and gong; The wacky artist
Spanish (NOA)	Leonardo DaEnte[?]	Play on "Leonardo da Vinci" and ente ("entity")
Spanish (NOE)	Pablo Psicasso, el artista muerto de hambre[?]	Play on "Pablo Picasso" and the prefix psico- (as in psychotic); the Starving Artist

Trivia

The image. Note the different hairstyle.

• A painting of a man resembling Van Gore can be found at the far end of the Parlor, near the candles Luigi must extinguish. This image may depict Van Gore's appearance when he was alive.
• There is a glitch where if Luigi leaves the room without collecting the key and goes out to the Balcony, the key vanishes. If he heads back into the hallway, the key respawns, with the sound of it dropping being audible. However, if Luigi goes back outside to the Balcony once more before returning to The Artist's Studio, the key is duplicated.