This was probably in part exchange for Russell’s powerful Portrait of Van Gogh (1886). Van Gogh would casually pin works to the walls of his accommodation, so this print could well have been pinned inside the small apartment in The Hague that he shared with his lover Sien Hoornik.įour years later, Van Gogh gave this example of the print to his Australian friend, the Impressionist artist John Peter Russell. The Met’s newly acquired example has pinhole damage in the corners. The location of the inscribed example may come as a surprise: it is at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. Vincent had probably intended to use At Eternity’s Gate in his quest to seek work from the publications The Illustrated London News or The Graphic. This is a particularly interesting lithograph, since on another example of the print the artist added the title in English with a pencil. These include At Eternity’s Gate, which is part of the group acquired by the Met. Van Gogh’s first prints were made in November 1882, while he was living in The Hague. Van Gogh’s At Eternity’s Gate (November 1882) Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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