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The Bedroom

  • Painting of bedroom, blue walls, green window, tan bed, red bedding.

Date:

1889

Artist:

Vincent van Gogh
Dutch, 1853-1890

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Vincent van Gogh so highly esteemed his bedroom painting that he made three distinct versions: the first, now in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; the second, belonging to the Art Constitute of Chicago, painted a year later on the same scale and virtually identical; and a third, smaller sail in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, which he fabricated as a gift for his mother and sister. Van Gogh conceived the first Bedroom in October 1888, a month after he moved into his "Yellowish Firm" in Arles, French republic. This moment marked the outset time the artist had a habitation of his ain, and he had immediately and enthusiastically set about decorating, painting a suite of canvases to fill the walls. Completely exhausted from the effort, he spent two-and-a-half days in bed and was then inspired to create a painting of his bedroom. Equally he wrote to his brother Theo, "It amused me enormously doing this bare interior. With a simplicity à la Seurat. In flat tints, but coarsely brushed in full impasto, the walls pale lilac, the floor in a broken and faded red, the chairs and the bed chrome xanthous, the pillows and the sheet very pale lemon dark-green, the bedspread blood-blood-red, the dressing-table orange, the washbasin blue, the window green. I had wished to express utter repose with all these very unlike tones." Although the picture symbolized relaxation and peace to the artist, to our eyes the canvas seems to teem with nervous energy, instability, and turmoil, an effect heightened past the sharply receding perspective.

Status

On View, Gallery 241

Department

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist

Vincent van Gogh

Title

The Bedroom

Origin

Saint-Rémy-de-Provence

Date

1889

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

73.6 × 92.iii cm (29 × 36 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1926.417

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