Skeleton with Burning Cigarette | Vincent van Gogh | 1886 17th Century who had used fraud to

who had used fraud to claim another man's inheritance

framing a luminous crescent moon suspended in a vast sky

The work is typical of Escher's style

In the small dismasted Spanish pinnace which is being overwhelmed in the immediate foreground

damned souls are entombed beneath the frozen surface

Skeleton with Burning Cigarette | Vincent van Gogh | 1886 17th Century who had used fraud toSkull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette is an early work by Vincent van Gogh. The small and undated oil on canvas painting featuring a skeleton and cigarette is part of the permanent collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It was most likely painted in the winter of 188586 as a satirical comment on conservative academic practices. Before it was common to use live humans as models, the academic routine included the study of skeletons to