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DESCRIPTION: Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette, an early work by Vincent van Gogh. The small and undated oil-on-canvas painting featuring a skeleton and cigarette.  It was most likely painted in the winter of 1885–86.  Before it was common to use live humans as models, the academic routine included the study of skeletons to develop an understanding of human anatomy. Van Gogh was in Antwerp, Belgium at that time attending classes at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, which he later said were boring and taught him nothing.

 

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Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette by Vincent van Gogh

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