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Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette (Dutch: Kop van een skelet met brandende sigaret) is an early work by Vincent van Gogh. The small and undated oil-on-canvas painting featuring a skeleton and cigarette is part of the permanent collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.[1] It was most likely painted in the winter of 1885–86 as a satirical comment on conservative academic practices.[1] Before it was common to use live humans as models, the academic routine included the study of skeletons to develop an understanding of human anatomy. Van Gogh was in Antwerp, Belgium at that time attending classes at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, which he later said were boring and taught him nothing.[2]

Skull of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette
Dutch: Kop van een skelet met brandende sigaret
Artist	Vincent van Gogh
Year	c. 1885–86
Catalogue	F212 JH999
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	32 cm × 24.5 cm (13 in × 9.6 in)
Location	Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Coordinates	52.35854°N 4.881319°E / 52.35854; 4.881319

Van Gogh included skeletons in another work from his Antwerp period, a sketch of a "Hanging skeleton and cat".[3] In 1887–88, van Gogh painted two more paintings with skulls, the only other works of his (besides a drawing from the same period) to use skulls as a motif.[2]

The work measures 32 by 24.5 centimetres (12.6 in × 9.6 in). It is considered a vanitas or memento mori, at a time when van Gogh himself was in poor health. It may be influenced by works of Hercules Segers, a 17th-century Dutch artist, or of Félicien Rops, a Belgian contemporary of van Gogh. Although often interpreted as a criticism of smoking, Van Gogh was a keen smoker himself, and continued to smoke until his death in 1890.[2]

The painting was held by Van Gogh's brother Theo Van Gogh at the time of his death in 1891. It was inherited by his widow Johanna van Gogh-Bonger until her death in 1925, and then by their son Vincent Willem van Gogh until 1962, when it was acquired by the Van Gogh Foundation. It was on loan to the Stedelijk Museum from 1962 to 1973, and has been on permanent loan to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam since 1973.[4]

See also

• List of works by Vincent van Gogh

References

• Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette, 1886 at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

External links

• Media related to Skull with a burning cigarette by Vincent Van Gogh at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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- [en] Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette

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[es] Cráneo con cigarrillo encendido

Cráneo con cigarrillo encendido (neerlandés: Kop van een skelet met brandende sigaret) es una pintura temprana de Vincent van Gogh, realizada aproximadamente entre 1885 y 1886. Se trata de una obra al óleo sobre lienzo de formato pequeño, la cual se encuentra en la colección permanente del Museo Van Gogh en Ámsterdam. Probablemente fue pintado en el invierno de 1885-1886 como una sátira sobre las prácticas académicas conservadoras.[1] Antes de que fuera común usar humanos vivos como modelos, la rutina académica incluía el estudio de esqueletos para desarrollar una comprensión de la anatomía humana. Van Gogh estaba en Amberes, Bélgica en ese momento asistiendo a clases en la Real Academia de Bellas Artes, que luego dijo que eran aburridas y no le enseñaron nada.[2][3]

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[fr] Crâne de squelette fumant une cigarette

Crâne de squelette fumant une cigarette (en néerlandais : Kop van een skelet met brandende sigaret) est une peinture à l'huile de l'artiste peintre néerlandais Vincent van Gogh réalisée en 1885-1886. Elle représente, comme son titre l'indique, un crâne qui fume une cigarette. L'œuvre est conservée au Musée Van Gogh d'Amsterdam[1].

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[ru] Череп с горящей сигаретой

«Череп с горящей сигаретой» — работа Винсента Ван Гога, представляющая собой картину небольшого размера, без датировки, хранящуюся в настоящее время в музее Винсента Ван Гога в Амстердаме. Написана, вероятно, зимой 1885—1886 годов в Антверпене, где художник посещал курсы живописи при Королевской Академии художеств, не принесшие, по его собственным словам, никакой пользы[1].

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