Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette ☷ Van Gogh ☲ Canvas Size:12 x 16 pack boats and steamships

pack boats and steamships

in which the use of Prussian blue pigment revolutionized Japanese printmaking

It depicts the industrialization of the port at Monet's hometown of Le Havre

and an owl concealed in a basket

Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette ☷ Van Gogh ☲ Canvas Size:12 x 16 pack boats and steamshipsSkull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette (1886) by Vincent van Gogh is self descriptive. He depicted skeletons and skulls only a few times in his career. It is considered a memento mori, a reminder of death, at a time when he himself was in poor health. One might interpret it as a criticism of smoking, but van Gogh was an avid smoker until his death in 1890.