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Commonly called Sien Hoornik, Clasina Maria Hoornik (1850–1904) lived with van Gogh during much of his time in The Hague from 1881 to 1883. Van Gogh used Sien, a pregnant prostitute, as a model for his work and later took Sien and her daughter into his home.
Apr 25, 2019 · In his short, 37-year life, Vincent van Gogh had only one live-in girlfriend, Sien Hoornik, a prostitute he hired to be his model. And just 21 years after he shot himself in a field in northern France, Hoornik also died at her own hand—just as she told the artist she would.
Apr 25, 2019 · Sien Hoornik, whom he met in The Hague, was working as a prostitute when Van Gogh approached her to model for his drawings. They quickly developed a relationship. Sien and her young...
Sorrow is a drawing by Vincent van Gogh, produced in 1882. The work, created two years after Van Gogh had decided to become an artist, depicts 32-year-old pregnant woman Clasina Maria Hoornik, familiarly known as Sien.
- Drawing, Pencil, Pen And Ink on Paper
Jun 29, 2024 · Sorrow, a Van Gogh drawing of a pregnant Sien Hoornik. Selling only one painting during his lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh has become the archetype of the tortured genius not appreciated until after his death.
A year later, Vincent got to know Sien Hoornik on the streets of The Hague. Sien worked as a prostitute, was pregnant and already had a young daughter. Vincent wanted to take care of them, and moved them into the little studio where he was living.
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Sien Hoornik I. 1 Mar. 1882. - 30 Apr. 1882. Clasina Maria “Sien” Hoornik (1850–1904) was Vincent’s girlfriend in 1882 and 1883. Sien and her mother, Maria Wilhelmina Hoornik-Pellers (1829–1910), lived at Noordstraat 16 in March and/or April 1882.
