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    Vincent van Gogh: Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette  wikidata:Q7536969 reasonator:Q7536969
    Artist
    Vincent van Gogh  (1853–1890)  wikidata:Q5582 s:en:Author:Vincent van Gogh q:en:Vincent van Gogh
     
    Vincent van Gogh
    Alternative names
    Vincent Willem van Gogh
    Description Dutch painter, drawer and printmaker
    Date of birth/death 30 March 1853 Edit this at Wikidata 29 July 1890 Edit this at Wikidata
    Location of birth/death Zundert Auvers-sur-Oise
    Work period between circa 1880 and circa July 1890
    date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1880-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1890-07-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
    Work location
    Netherlands (Etten, The Hague, Nuenen, …, before 1886
    date QS:P,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1886-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
    ),
    Paris (1886–1887), Arles (1888–1889),
    Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (1889–1890), Auvers-sur-Oise (1890)
    Authority file
    creator QS:P170,Q5582
    		 Edit this at Wikidata
    image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
    Title
    Dutch:
    Kop van een skelet met brandende sigaret Edit this at Wikidata

    Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette
    title QS:P1476,nl:"Kop van een skelet met brandende sigaret Edit this at Wikidata"
    label QS:Lnl,"Kop van een skelet met brandende sigaret Edit this at Wikidata"
    label QS:Les,"Cráneo con cigarrillo en llamas"
    label QS:Lfr,"Crâne avec cigarette allumée"
    label QS:Lvi,"Sọ người và điếu thuốc, sơn dầu trên vải bạt"
    label QS:Lbr,"Penn ur relegenn o vutunat ur sigaretenn"
    label QS:Leo,"Kranio kun Brulanta Cigaredo"
    label QS:Lca,"Crani fumant un cigarret"
    label QS:Lfa,"اسکلت با سیگار روشن"
    label QS:Lde,"Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette"
    label QS:Lpt,"Caveira com Cigarro Aceso"
    label QS:Len-gb,"Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette"
    label QS:Lhy,"Վառվող ծխախոտով գանգը"
    label QS:Lbg,"Череп с горяща цигара"
    label QS:Luk,"Череп з цигаркою"
    label QS:Lka,"ჩონჩხის თავის ქალა სიგარეტით"
    label QS:Lsv,"Skalle med brinnande cigarett"
    label QS:Lpt-br,"Caveira com Cigarro Aceso"
    label QS:Lhu,"Koponya égő cigarettával"
    label QS:Lid,"Tulang dari sebuah Tengkorak dengan Rokok yang Menyala"
    label QS:Lpl,"Czaszka z palącym się papierosem"
    label QS:Lhe,"גולגולת עם סיגריה בוערת"
    label QS:Lru,"Череп с горящей сигаретой"
    label QS:Ltr,"Sigara İçen Kafatası"
    label QS:Lit,"Scheletro con sigaretta accesa"
    label QS:Lel,"Κρανίο με Αναμμένο Τσιγάρο"
    label QS:Len,"Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette"
    label QS:Len-ca,"Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette"
    Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
    Genre vanitas Edit this at Wikidata
    Date 1886 (presumed)
    Medium oil on canvas
    medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
    Dimensions height: 32.5 cm (12.7 in); width: 24 cm (9.4 in)
    dimensions QS:P2048,32.5U174728
    dimensions QS:P2049,24U174728
    institution QS:P195,Q224124
    Accession number
    Inv nr F212
    Object location
    52° 21′ 30.7″ N, 4° 52′ 52.7″ E Edit this at Structured Data on Commons Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
    Place of creation Antwerp Edit this at Wikidata
    Object history
    • Mrs. J. van Gogh-Bonger, Amsterdam
    • V.W. van Gogh, Laren
    • Vincent van Gogh Museum
    Exhibition history
    • First exhibited Berlin, 1910, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cassirer (Art Gallery), 25 October - 27 November, 74 nrs. [3]
    Notes
    • Catalogues raisonnés:
    • F212: Faille, Jacob Baart de la (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings, Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 212 .
    • JH999 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no.  999.
    • The painting cannot be dated precisely as there no sources. However, at the beginning of 1886, Vincent enrolled in drawing claseses at the Academy of Art, Antwerp, under Charles Verlat, where training was given by copying plaster casts and where a skeleton was available as an aid. It seems likely that this drawing and another of a Hanging Skeleton with a Cat F1361 dates from this time (Hulsker p. 218).
    The surviving studies from this time are numbered JH980 to JH1018 in Hulsker's catalogue. Hulsker calls them "ungainly" and comments it is not difficult to see why Vincent's instructors found fault with him. Sketch of a Right Arm and Shoulder F1693j is typical. The drawing classes lasted only a few weeks.
    The museum page comments that the burning cigarette was probably intended as a joke, perhaps also as a comment on conservative academic practice. Studies such as Female Nude, Standing, Seen from the Side F1699, where Vincent emphasises the thick-set features of the Brabant peasant women he was familiar with over the classic nude, attest Vincent's different vision (Naifeh and Smith, p. 485-6 n. 350).
    Naifeh and Smith set the painting in the context of Vincent's worries over his deteriorating health (p 489 n 419). Vincent was a heavy smoker and keenly aware of the damage the habit might be doing his health.
    References
    Source/Photographer Museum Page (the image was stitched from tiles - for assembly method used see The Potato Eaters)
    Other versions
    • 1,867 × 2,480 Vincent Van Gogh Museum

      1,867 × 2,480
      Vincent Van Gogh Museum

    • Framed

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