Un cangrejo de espaldas
Crab on its Back
Sobre el cuadro
Un cangrejo de espaldas (en neerlandés: Een op zijn rug liggende krab) es un cuadro realizado por el pintor neerlandés Vincent van Gogh. Se trata de un bodegón de un cangrejo acostado boca arriba con un fondo verde. El Museo Van Gogh fecha la obra entre agosto y septiembre de 1887, mientras que otras fuentes la fechan a principios de 1889. La pintura se encuentra en la colección permanente del Museo Van Gogh de Ámsterdam.
La pintura posiblemente esté inspirada en una estampa japonesa de un cangrejo de Hokusai que van Gogh había visto en la revista Le Japon Artistique, que le había enviado su hermano Theo van Gogh en septiembre de 1888.
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Mientras tanto, en la vida de Vincent van Gogh
La vida enteraFebruary 1886
Moves to Paris to join his brother Theo
Van Gogh left Antwerp to join his brother Theo, an art dealer, in Paris. So began a very fruitful and eventful Paris period: he painted some two hundred and thirty pictures there, more than anywhere else.
November 1887
Friendship with Paul Gauguin
Theo and Vincent befriended Paul Gauguin, who had just arrived in Paris.
February 1888
To Arles, dreaming of a “Studio of the South”
The public still neither accepted nor bought his paintings, and in February 1888 Van Gogh left for Arles in the south of France to found a “Studio of the South”, a brotherhood of like-minded artists in which he gave Gauguin the leading role. Theo backed the plan with money.
23 October 1888
Gauguin arrives in Arles
After much pleading Gauguin arrived in Arles, and in November the two painted together: Gauguin portrayed Van Gogh in “The Painter of Sunflowers”, and their first joint outing was to the Alyscamps. At Gauguin's suggestion Vincent painted from memory, producing “Memory of the Garden at Etten”.
23 December 1888
The severed ear
After an altercation on the evening of 23 December, Van Gogh, seemingly hearing voices, severed his left ear, wholly or in part, with a razor and delivered it, wrapped in paper, to a woman at a brothel. Next morning a policeman found him unconscious; in hospital he was diagnosed with “acute mania with generalised delirium”.
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