Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Two Old Men Eating, 1820 – 1823

     

Artists over 50: better late than ever? | The Guardian (01 Sept. 2014)

As a new exhibition of late-period Turners opens at Tate Britain, curator Sam Smiles asks if it’s time art outgrew its obsession with age.  

Johannes Matthaeus Koelz, Heads of Two Old People, 1930

Fyodor Andreevich Bronnikov (Russian painter, 1827-1902): Portraits of old age

George Pemba, Old Xhosa woman, 1945