The Rare Van Gogh Print Hidden from the World in Wartime Iran

Article Text HereIn a week when the eyes of the world are turned towards the suffering in the Middle East, a Van Gogh print locked away in the vaults of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art has assumed a new symbolism. Van Gogh inscribed his title on the lithograph: At Eternity’s Gate.Dating from November 1882, when Van Gogh was living in The Hague, the print depicts what he called an “orphan man”, a resident of the local Old Men’s Home. Only...