2 . A pencil drawing of a broken old man, head in hands, looking extremely exhausted, has been identified as a newly-discovered work by Vincent Van Gogh.
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam said yesterday that it had _______ the authenticity (真实性) of the drawing. Senior researcher Teio Meedendorp described it as a(an) “_______” discovery, shining light on van Gogh’s early career as an artist in the Hague, a time less well-known than his years in Paris or the south of France.
The drawing has been titled Study for _______. It was drawn in late 1882s when the 29-year-old van Gogh was two years into his career as an artist. He was drawing as many studies of _______ as he could. He often recruited models from an almshouse for the elderly run by the Dutch Reformed church, _______ them a modest fee and gave them coffee.
He called these models his “orphan men” and “orphan women”. A favourite was the man in the newly discovered drawing, Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland, the only one of these models whose name is known.
Van Gogh used a thick carpenter’s pencil on rough watercolour paper. The sheet _______ 48.8 cm by 30 cm.
Experts have _______ the drawing back to the end of November 1882, linking it to several other works made at the time.
Van Gogh talked about the two drawings in a letter to his brother, Theo. “Today and yesterday I drew two _______ of an old man with his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands.... Perhaps I’ll do a lithograph (平版印刷画) of it. What a fine _______ an old working man makes, in his patched bombazine (斜纹布) suit with his bald head.”
At the time Van Gogh was ________ to work as a magazine illustrator, so he could earn money in his own right and be less dependent on his brother.
The drawing, which has been in a ________ collection in the Netherlands since about 1910, goes on display at the Amsterdam museum from 17 September, 2021, until 2 January, 2022, after which it will be returned to the owner.
Meedendorp recalled his ________ on making the discovery: “I’ve worked with Van Gogh for a substantial part of my life, especially the drawings, and it is always a delight to have them in your hand and looking at them up close. These drawings from the Hague are ________ delightful to look at — you can follow the working process of Vincent so well... the way he ________ the pencil.”
“Whenever you have a ________ at drawings like this, you want to pick up a pencil yourself and start drawing.”
1. | A．denied | B．doubted | C．recognized | D．concealed |
2. | A．expensive | B．extraordinary | C．impossible | D．useless |
3. | A．Worn Out | B．Reach Out | C．Hands Up | D．On the Way |
4. | A．animals | B．people | C．buildings | D．nature |
5. | A．lent | B．protected | C．showed | D．paid |
6. | A．costs | B．values | C．measures | D．weighs |
7. | A．traced | B．favoured | C．displayed | D．withdrew |
8. | A．squares | B．figures | C．triangles | D．servants |
9. | A．design | B．scenery | C．sight | D．drawing |
10. | A．talented | B．ambitious | C．modest | D．pessimistic |
11. | A．fine | B．new | C．private | D．public |
12. | A．annoyance | B．disappointment | C．excitement | D．indifference |
13. | A．absolutely | B．barely | C．hardly | D．instantly |
14. | A．ruins | B．classifies | C．handles | D．accompanies |
15. | A．purchase | B．laugh | C．scream | D．peer |
