Year 1888 (1888) Genre Still life | Catalogue F 605 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 38 cm x 46 cm Created 1888 | |
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Periods Post-Impressionism, Modern art Similar Vincent van Gogh artwork, Artwork at Van Gogh Museum, Still life artwork | ||
Crab on its Back (Dutch: Een op zijn rug liggende krab) is an 1888 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. It is a still life of a crab lying on its back with a green background. The painting is in the permanent collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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, that 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 of which one is lying on its back, which is on display in the National Gallery in London.
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