Head of A Skeleton With A Burning Cigarette Van Gogh 1885
by Vincent Van Gogh
Title
Head of A Skeleton With A Burning Cigarette Van Gogh 1885
Artist
Vincent Van Gogh
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
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Head of A Skeleton With A Burning Cigarette Van Gogh
Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette is an early work by Vincent van Gogh. The oil on canvas painting featuring a skeleton and cigarette is part of the permanent collection of the Museum in Amsterdam. It was probably painted in the winter of 1885–86 as a humorous comment on conservative academic practices. Before painting live human models, the academic routine would have included studies of skeletons, to develop an understanding of human anatomy an assumption based on the fact that Van Gogh was in Antwerp at that time, attending classes at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, classes he would later say were boring and taught him nothing.
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