Qui va sortir amb Sien Hoornik?

Vincent van Gogh drew and painted a series of works of his mistress Sien during their time together in the Netherlands. In particular, his drawing Sorrow is widely acknowledged as a masterwork of draftsmanship, the culmination of a long and sometimes uncertain apprenticeship in learning his craft.

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. Van Gogh made drawings and paintings of Sien and her daughter, baby and mother over that period, which reflected the domestic life and hardships of the working poor. Their relationship was not accepted by his family or supporters, although his brother Theo did not withdraw his support over it. It did contribute however, to a split with Anton Mauve, a cousin-in-law and noted painter of the Hague School, who had introduced Van Gogh to painting as well as supporting him financially, and whom Van Gogh revered. At his brother Theo's urging, Van Gogh left Sien in 1883 to paint in Drenthe, ending the only domestic relationship he would ever have.

Sien resumed her life as a seamstress, cleaning woman and likely prostitute before marrying in 1901. On 22 November 1904, aged 54, she threw herself into the Schelde river and drowned, fulfilling a prediction she had made to Van Gogh in 1883: "what the bad moods are is still more desperate ... 'it's bound to end up with me jumping into the water.'"

Vincent Willem van Gogh, (Zundert, 30 de març del 1853 – Auvers-sur-Oise, 29 de juliol del 1890) fou un pintor postimpressionista neerlandès, autor d'uns 900 quadres (27 d'aquests autoretrats) i uns 1.600 dibuixos. A més, deixà 800 cartes, 650 d'aquestes adreçades al seu germà petit, Theo van Gogh. La figura central en la vida de Van Gogh fou aquest germà, que contínuament i desinteressada li donà suport financer. La gran amistat que tota la vida els uní es troba documentada en les nombroses cartes que s'intercanviaren a partir de l'agost del 1872. Van Gogh fou un pioner de l'expressionisme.

Malgrat la qualitat de l'obra, calgué esperar a la seva mort perquè els mèrits li fossin reconeguts i es convertís en una gran figura de la pintura. Tingué una gran influència en l'art del segle xx, especialment entre els fauvistes i els expressionistes alemanys. El seu art fou seguit per Derain, Vlaminck i Van Dongen.