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. 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.
At Eternity's Gate
Portrait of Doctor Félix Rey (F500, JH1659), oil on canvas 1889, Pushkin Museum. Rey disliked his portrait and gave it away.
Hubert von Herkomer - Sunday at the Chelsea Hospital (1871), also known as The Last Muster
Prayer Before the Meal, pencil, black chalk, ink, heightened with white, December 1882, Private collection, Switzerland (F 1002, JH 281).
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. His oeuvre includes landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, most of which are characterized by bold colors and dramatic brushwork that contributed to the rise of expressionism in modern art. Van Gogh's work was beginning to gain critical attention before he died at age 37, by what was suspected at the time to be a suicide. During his lifetime, only one of Van Gogh's paintings, The Red Vineyard, was sold.
Self-Portrait, c.1887, Art Institute of Chicago
Van Gogh's home in Cuesmes; while there he decided to become an artist
Kee Vos-Stricker with her son Jan c. 1879–80
Rooftops, View from the Atelier The Hague, 1882, private collection