The Potato Eaters Van Gogh Reproduction, hand-painted in oil on canvas

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The Potato Eaters replica in oil on canvas

Van Gogh Studio is located in Amsterdam, near the Van Gogh museum where we can study the original works. Our paintings are all painted in oil on canvas by mainly Dutch artists who have studied Van Gogh's technique, including brushstrokes, color mixing, atmosphere and the rhythm of painting.

Van Gogh To Theo

Van Gogh was extremely proud of The Potato Eaters, a serious figure painting. He wrote to his brother Theo, who at the time was not impressed with Van Gogh’s current work, describing this new piece. He deliberately chose a difficult composition and to depict ugly and bony faces.

‘You see, I really have wanted to make it so that people get the idea that these folk… have tilled the earth themselves with these hands they are putting in the dish… — that they have thus honestly earned their food.’

Stolen from the Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam!

The original housed in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, along with 20 others works, was on April 14, 1991, stolen. Thieves hiding in the museum after it closed, held the security staff at gunpoint and carefully selected their bounty. As soon as they left the premises the police were alerted. Their car was found some 30 minutes later, with all the works still inside.

The Potato Eaters Criticized

At the time The Potato Eaters was criticized for being too dark, and also that the figures were not wholly life-like, their features were incorrect and full of mistakes. For Van Gogh he was always more concerned about the message in the painting, the feeling that it contained. In reference to the dark and earthy hue Van Gogh wrote: ‘[the figures are depicted in] something like the colour of a really dusty potato, unpeeled of course’. The painting today is one of Van Gogh’s most famous, it not only highlighted his developing mastery of the form, but also his deep concern for humanity.
 

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