Skull with lit cigarette

This painting was created during Vincent van Gogh's stay in Antwerp. The skull is often seen as a symbol of death, reflection on human existence and the finitude of life. A "skull with a lit cigarette" can symbolize various ideas such as death, addiction, decay or the contrasts between life and death.

Prevailing color of this fine art print is yellow and its shape is portrait. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890). Dutch painter belonging to Post-Impressionism. His paintings (some 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches) are among the most famous in the world and are sold for exorbitant sums (except for those in our shop). Parisian Impressionists He lived in Paris from 1886 and was influenced by the use of bright colours - most of his works were painted during this period. In his paintings, Gogh uses contrasting colours (often blue and orange - he said that I want to use colours other contrasts to each of them shone even more to contrast a man and a woman). He was known for his excesses and amputated an ear after the break-up of his friendship with Gauguin. There is a lot of speculation about this incident (he possibly suffered from heavy metal poisoning from paint that had caused mental problems). In 1890, unfortunately he committed suicide.