ylum. This news visibly worried him but did not make him change his intentions. He intended to listen only to his conscience.
             Sien posed all the time for him, and Vincent made constant progress. Despite their
             occasionally crude aspect, some of the drawings made in these circumstances already
             show an emotional quality that would develop further in the years to come. It was Sien
             who posed for Sorrow and The Great Lady, women shown to us in all their ugly nudity,
             without any fleshly charm. On the contrary, they shock us with their poor bodies, which
             bear witness the trials lived through during their unhappy and obscure days.
             On June 7, 1882, Vincent's physical state again deteriorates and he was admitted
             to the municipal hospital of The Hage, where he stayed 23 days, because he had
             What I feared when I wrote you my last letter has happened, he wrote to Theo. I
             was really ill, fever and nervous prostration kept me in bed for three days. Lasting
             headaches, and just to add to it all, tooth ache on and off. Further on he wrote:
             ...