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Many art historians have linked Arshile Gorky’s [i]Agony[/i] (1947) to the struggles and hardships the artist experienced before committing suicide on July 21st, 1948. Indeed, the personal disasters came one after another: it began in January 1946 with a fire in his studio that led to the destruction of multiple paintings, and a painful cancer operation that happened a month later. During this time, Gorky’s physical and mental state deteriorated. In 1948, he broke his neck and lost the use of hi...