File:Skull with a Burning Cigarette.jpg

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Artist



Alternative names	Vincent Willem van Gogh
Description	Dutch painter, draughtsman and printmaker
Date of birth/death	30 March 1853	29 July 1890
Location of birth/death	Zundert	Auvers-sur-Oise
Work period	between circa 1880 and circa July 1890
Work location	Netherlands ( Etten, The Hague, Nuenen, …, before 1886), Paris (from 1886 until 1887), Arles (from 1888 until 1889), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (from 1889 until 1890), Auvers-sur-Oise (1890)
Authority control	WorldCat

Title

English: Skull with a Burning Cigarette

Français : Crâne à la cigarette qui fume

Türkçe: Sigara İçen Kurukafa

Tiếng Việt: Sọ người và điếu thuốc, sơn dầu trên vải bạt

Nederlands: Schedel van een skelet met brandende sigaret

Svenska: Skalle med brinnande cigarett

Date

1885-12 or early in 1886

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

32 × 24.5 cm (12.6 × 9.6 in)

Current location

Van Gogh Museum

	Native name	Van Gogh Museum
	Location	Amsterdam
	Coordinates	52° 21′ 30.30″ N, 4° 52′ 51.90″ E
	Established	1973
	Website	www.vangoghmuseum.nl

Amsterdam

Notes

Created in Antwerp.

References

Catalogues raisonnés:

F212: Jacob Baart de la Faille (1970) [1928] The Works of Vincent van Gogh. His Paintings and Drawings., Amsterdam: J.M. Meulenhoff, no. 212.
JH999 : Jan Hulsker (1980), The Complete Van Gogh, Oxford: Phaidon, no. 999.

Source/Photographer

Scanned from Smoke: a global history of smoking (2004) ISBN 1-86189-200-4

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