Vincent Van Gogh, 1882
Sorrow
Vincent Van Gogh was a late bloomer, only beginning to seriously pursue art at age 29, at the prompting of his brother Theo. In Sorrow, we see the progress that Van Gogh had made after two years of serious study. Always lacking in money, Van Gogh often drew and painted his neighbors or people he hired off the street to model, but Sorrow is a portrait of his mistress, the pregnant, homeless prostitute Clasina Maria Hoornik, who went by the name Sien. read more
