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''Crab on its Back'' ( nl, Een op zijn rug liggende krab) is an
Vincent van Gogh
Victoria Charles, p.155 The painting is in the permanent collection of the
oil painting
Oil painting is the process of painting with pigments with a medium of drying oil as the binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on wood panel or canvas for several centuries, spreading from Europe to the rest of ...
by Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inc ...
. It is a still life of a crab lying on its back with a green background. The Van Gogh Museum
The Van Gogh Museum () is a Dutch art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries in the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw. The museum opene ...
dates the work to August–September 1887, while other sources date it to early 1889.For exampleVincent van Gogh
Victoria Charles, p.155 The painting is in the permanent collection of the
Van Gogh Museum
The Van Gogh Museum () is a Dutch art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries in the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw. The museum opene ...
in Amsterdam
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in the Netherlands
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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
''Artistic Japan'' was a magazine of Japanese art, published by German-born French art dealer Siegfried Bing. It ran for thirty-six monthly issues from 1888 to 1891 in French, English, and German editions and contributed to a revival of Japonism ...
'', which his brother Theo van Gogh had sent him in September 1888.
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 theNational Gallery
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director ...
in London
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.Two CrabsNational Gallery
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director ...
. Retrieved on 17 July 2014.
See also
* List of works by Vincent van GoghReferences
External links
* {{Authority control 1888 paintings Paintings by Vincent van Gogh Collections of the Van Gogh Museum Crustaceans in art Still life paintings