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OriginalCrab on its Back is an 1888 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. It is a still life of a crab lying on its back with a green background. The painting is in the permanent collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Alt 1 – The version from the Van Gogh Museum
Reason
This is not what you think of when you hear "van Gogh", and yet here it is. Honestly, it's a very original idea for a still life (even if it may have been derived from a Hokusai print)
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FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator
Vincent van Gogh

Promoted File:Crustacean, lying on his back by Vincent van Gogh (Van Gogh museum photograph).jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 01:56, 19 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]