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At Eternity's Gate

Sorrowing Old Man ('At Eternity's Gate')
An elderly man with a bald head is sitting on a yellow chair by his fire. There is a low fire in the grate. He is dressed in blue clothes. He is holding his head in his hands.
ArtistVincent van Gogh
Year1890
Catalogue
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions80 cm × 64 cm (31.5 in × 21.2 in)
LocationKröller-Müller Museum[1], Otterlo

Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity's Gate) is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that he made in 1890 in Saint-Rémy de Provence based on an early lithograph.[2][3] The painting was completed in early May at a time when he was convalescing from a severe relapse in his health some two months before his death, which is generally accepted as a suicide.[4]

In the 1970 catalogue raisonné, it was given the title Worn Out: At Eternity's Gate.[5]

  1. ^ Sorrowing old man ('At Eternity's Gate'), Kröller-Müller Museum[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Treurende oude man ('At Eternity's Gate') - Kröller-Müller Museum". Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  3. ^ "To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 26 and Monday, 27 November 1882". Vincent van Gogh: The Letters. Van Gogh Museum.
  4. ^ Hulsker, Jan (1986). The Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches. Random House. p. 444. ISBN 0-517-44867-X.
  5. ^ de la Faille, Jacob Baart (1970). The Works of Vincent van Gogh. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff. p. 274. OCLC 300160639.

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