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| Keywords: Vincent van Gogh - Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette - VGM F212.jpg Artwork Creator Vincent van Gogh 1886 presumed oil canvas Size cm 32 5 24 Institution Van Gogh Museum cite book Naifeh Steven; Smith Gregory White Van Gogh The Life http //vangoghbiography com/NotesIntroduction 978-1846680106 Profile Books 2011 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 credit line http //www vangoghmuseum nl/vgm/index jsp page 1628 collection 619 lang en Museum Page the image was stitched from tiles - for assembly method used see The Potato Eaters Van Gogh catalogues 212 999 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 http //www vggallery com/drawings/p_1361 htm 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 http //www vggallery com/drawings/p_1693j htm Sketch of a Right Arm and Shoulder F1693j is typical The drawing classes lasted only a few weeks The http //www vangoghmuseum nl/vgm/index jsp page 1628 collection 619 lang en 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 http //www vggallery com/drawings/p_1699 htm 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 http //vangoghbiography com/notes php valuesearch 486 searchbykeyword yes searchbynote yes chapter All startpage endpage searchtype 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 http //vangoghbiography com/notes php valuesearch 489 searchbykeyword yes searchbynote yes chapter All startpage endpage searchtype basic p 489 n 419 Vincent was a heavy smoker and keenly aware of the damage the habit might be doing his health cite web Letter 558 To Theo van Gogh Antwerp on or about Thursday 4 February 1886 http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let558/letter html Vincent van Gogh The Letters Van Gogh Museum 1r 1 What the doctor tells me is that I absolutely must live better and that I have to take more care of myself with my work until I ™m stronger It ™s total debilitation Well I ™ve made it worse by smoking a lot which I did all the more because then one isn ™t troubled by one ™s empty stomach cite web Letter 760 To Theo van Gogh Arles Sunday 21 April 1889 http //vangoghletters org/vg/letters/let760/letter html Vincent van Gogh The Letters Van Gogh Museum 2r 5 Now you well understand that if alcohol was certainly one of the great causes of my madness then it came very slowly and would go away slowly too should it go of course Or if it comes from smoking same thing PD-old-100 accession number Inv nr F212 <gallery> Vincent van Gogh - Head of a skeleton with a burning cigarette - Google Art Project jpg 2 481 × 3 289<br>Google Art Project WLANL - Techdiva 1 0 - Kop van een skelet met brandende sigaret Vincent van Gogh 1885-1886 jpg Framed </gallery> Uploaded with UploadWizard Skull with a burning cigarette by Vincent Van Gogh | ||||
