GOGH, Vincent van
(b. 1853, Groot Zundert, d. 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise)

The Potato Eaters

April 1885, Nuenen
Lithograph, 265 x 320 mm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Catalogue numbers: F 1661, JH 737.

Van Gogh was working on various versions of The Potato Eaters from mid-April 1885. He made a lithograph after his first, ambitious version of the scene. There are 17, possibly 18 known prints of this lithograph. All the impressions are on cheap, machine-made woven paper of not very good quality.




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