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Crab on its Back (Dutch: Een op zijn rug liggende krab) is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. It is a still life of a crab lying on its back with a green background. The Van Gogh Museum dates the work to August–September 1887,[1] while other sources date it to early 1889.[2] The painting is in the permanent collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.[1]

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, which his brother Theo van Gogh had sent him in September 1888.[1][3]

Van Gogh also painted Two Crabs (1889), a still life with two crabs one of which is lying on its back, on display in the National Gallery in London.[3]

Two Crabs (1889)

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References

  1. ^ a b c "A Crab on its Back - Van Gogh Museum". www.vangoghmuseum.nl. Archived from the original on 2018-10-14. Retrieved 2018-10-14.
  2. ^ For example, Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles, p.155
  3. ^ a b Two Crabs, National Gallery. Retrieved on 17 July 2014.
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