Vincent van Gogh - Prisoners Exercising after Dore 1890

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Prisoners Exercising after Dore 1890

Prisoners Exercising after Dore 1890
80x64cm oil/canvas
Moscow, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

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Prisoners Exercising after Gustave Dore was painted in 1890 by Vincent van Gogh, toward the end of his time in the asylum. As Vincent regained his strength, his desire to leave Saint-Rémy intensified.
He made an oil copy of Gustave Doré's print of life in prison, portraying the inmates marching slowly in an endless circle, exercising their stiff limbs. The nearly monochromatic palette and the sense of confinement van Gogh created by the splayed walls in Prisoners Exercising heighten the monotony of the image of futile activity, reflecting Vincent's own frustration and discontent.