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- On July 27, 1890, two months after completing his painting, he shot himself in a delirium. He died two days later at the age of 37. The sorrowing old man in his painting seems to reflect something of van Gogh’s own struggle, while its title—At Eternity’s Gate—testifies to the comfort he found in the thought of God and eternity.
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At Eternity’s Gate tells the story of Vincent van Gogh’s final years in the south of France leading up to his death. While based on known details of the artist’s biography, director...
At Eternity’s Gate tells the story of Vincent van Gogh’s final years in the south of France leading up to his death. While based on known details of the artist’s biography, director...
Nov 16, 2018 · November 16, 2018 3:18pm. Courtesy of Venice Film Festival. Set in 1890, At Eternity's Gate tells the story of Vincent van Gogh's (Willem Dafoe) stay in Auvers-sur-Oise, France,...
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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 and some two months before his death, generally accepted as a suicide.
The lithograph was based on a pencil drawing Worn Out, one of a series of studies he made in 1882 of a pensioner and war veteran, Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland, at a local almshouse in The Hague and itself a reworking of a drawing and watercolor he had made the previous year. The inspiration for Worn Out was Hubert von Herkomer's Sunday at the Chels...
Later, in a rare expression of his own religious feelings, he wrote expressly about this lithograph and two other drawings also posed by Zuyderland, of an old man reading a Bible and saying grace (below) respectively:
The film dramatizes the controversial theory put forward by van Gogh biographers Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, in which they speculate that van Gogh's death was caused by manslaughter rather than suicide.
Apr 6, 2024 · The Mystery of the Six-Fingered Hand. In a twist of surrealism, a close observation of “At Eternity’s Gate” reveals that the right hand of the sorrowing old man has six fingers. The purpose or inspiration behind this unusual detail is a topic rife with interpretation and speculation.
Nov 15, 2018 · Directed by Julian Schnabel. Biography, Drama. PG-13. 1h 50m. By Manohla Dargis. Nov. 15, 2018. In “At Eternity’s Gate,” a vivid, intensely affecting portrait of Vincent van Gogh...
