Two Crabs

Two Crabs is an 1889 oil painting by Vincent van Gogh.

It is a still life of two crabs, one on its back and one upright, with a green background.

[1] Van Gogh is thought to have painted this work after his hospital release in January 1889.

It was possibly inspired by a Japanese print of a crab by Hokusai that he had seen in the magazine Le Japon Artistique, that his brother Theo van Gogh had sent him in September 1888.

[1] The painting is held by the National Gallery in London, on loan from a private collector.