Crab on its Back
Painting by Vincent van Gogh
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Crab on its Back (Dutch: Een op zijn rug liggende krab) is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. It is a still life of a crab lying on its back with a green background. The Van Gogh Museum dates the work to August–September 1887,[1] while other sources date it to early 1889.[2] The painting is in the permanent collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.[1]
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| Crab on its Back | |
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| Een op zijn rug liggende krab (Dutch) | |
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| Artist | Vincent van Gogh |
| Year | c. 1887–1889 |
| Catalogue | F 605 |
| Type | Still life |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 38 cm × 46.5 cm (15 in × 18.3 in) |
| Location | Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
The painting is possibly inspired by a Japanese print of a crab by Hokusai that Van Gogh had seen in the magazine Le Japon Artistique, which his brother Theo van Gogh had sent him in September 1888.[1][3]
Related work
Van Gogh also painted Two Crabs (1889), a still life with two crabs one of which is lying on its back, on display in the National Gallery in London.[3]
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