2007-10-22 08:06:48 · 3 answers · asked by Ashley S 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
No, he didn't. He died not long afterwards though, in 1903. He apparently tried to commit suicide shortly before the completion of the work, but failed. He died of a heart attack while in prison. He was pretty frail and in poor physical shape, what with the drinking and the syphilis.
2007-10-22 09:30:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
He tried to. He had been hording arsenic which he was taking for the treatment of syphilis because after he finished "Where" he realized he wanted to end his life: he was old, a failure, and dying. So he went into the jungle and drank the poison. He took too much, vomited and went back to his hut.
He later died of either a heart attack, which he had already had a few of, or an over dose of morphine in 1903.
-KURTZ-
2007-10-22 15:12:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
1) He died of syphilis.
2) The painting was finished in 1898 he died 1903.
2007-10-22 15:11:11 · answer #3 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋