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Two Crabs

Two Crabs





Model : Crabe

Date : 1889

Sizes : 61 cm x 47 cm
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : On loan from a private collection
National Gallery
Cézanne, Gauguin and van Gogh
Main Building
First Floor - Section 45
Item 19 on 20
French Painting
Painting (Still Life)

Area related
Arles (France)

Description   

After his release from hospital in Arles in January 1889, Van Gogh embarked on a series of still lifes, including crab studies. This painting may show the same crab upright and on its back. Parallel strokes sculpt the creature's form on an exuberant sea-like surface.

On 7 January van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo : "I am going to set to work again tomorrow. I shall start by doing one or two still lifes to get used to painting again".

He was probably also inspired by a woodcut by Hokusai, "Crabs", which was reproduced in the May 1888 issue of "Le Japon Artistique", sent to Vincent by Theo in September of that year.

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