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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
artist QS:P170,Q5582
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Dutch:
Kop van een skelet met brandende sigaret Edit this at Wikidata

Head of a skeleton with a burning cigarette,
label QS:Lnl,"Kop van een skelet met brandende sigaret"
label QS:Len,"Head of a skeleton with a 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)
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