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Two Crabs

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Year
  
1889 (1889)

Medium
  
Oil on canvas

Artist
  
Vincent van Gogh

Catalogue
  
606

Type
  
Still life

Owner
  
Private collector

Created
  
1889

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Dimensions
  
47 cm × 61 cm (19 in × 24 in)

Location
  
National Gallery, London, UK

Similar
  
Vincent van Gogh artwork, Other artwork

Two Crabs is an 1889 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. It is a still life of two crabs, one on its back and one upright, with a green background. The work is oil on canvas of 47 cm (19 in) high and 61 cm (24 in) wide.

Van Gogh is thought to have painted this work after his hospital release in January 1889. It was possibly inspired by a Japanese print of a crab by Hokusai that he had seen in the magazine Le Japon Artistique, that his brother Theo van Gogh had sent him in September 1888.

The painting is on display in room 43 of the National Gallery in London, on loan from a private collector.

Crab on its Back, a still life of a single crab lying on its back, is a related painting by Van Gogh. It is in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

References

Two Crabs Wikipedia