Which artist painted The Potato Eaters?
The Potato Eaters Museum was robbed of twenty major paintings including the final version of "The Potato Eaters". "The getaway car blew a tire on the way to the meeting point and never showed up. After waiting around, the nervous thieves fled on foot, abandoning the paintings" 35 minutes after the robbery, the paintings were quickly recovered. The Potato Eaters The Potato Eaters () is an oil painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh painted in April 1885 in Nuenen, Netherlands. It is in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. A preliminary oil sketch of the painting is at the Kröller-Müller Museum in
The Potato Eaters brother Theo written mid-June 1884, Vincent remarks Before Vincent painted "The Potato Eaters" Israëls had already treated the same subject in his "A Peasant Family at the Table" and judging from a comment in a letter to Theo 11 March 1882, Vincent had seen this (or at least a variation of it) and had been inspired by it to produce his own version of it. Compositionally the two are very similar: in both paintings the composition of the painting is centered by a figure whose back is turned to the viewer. As well as an interest gained by "A Peasant