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The Bedroom

Vincent van Gogh1889

The Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Stati Uniti

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 Institute of Chicago, painted a year later on the same scale and almost identical; and a third, smaller canvas in the collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, which he made as a gift for his mother and sister. Van Gogh conceived the first “Bedroom” in October 1888, a month after he moved into his “Yellow House” in Arles, France. This moment marked the first time the artist had a home of his own, and he 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. As 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 yellow, the pillows and the sheet very pale lemon green, the bedspread blood-red, the dressing-table orange, the washbasin blue, the window green. I had wished to express ‘utter repose’ with all these very different 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, and effect heightened by the sharply receding perspective.

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  • Titolo: The Bedroom
  • Creatore: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)
  • Durata della vita dell'autore: 1853/1890
  • Data di creazione: 1889
  • Dimensioni reali: 29 × 36 5/8 in. (73.6 × 92.3 cm)
  • Tipo: Painting
  • Link esterno: The Art Institute of Chicago
  • Media: Oil on canvas
  • Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection, 1926.417
  • Artist: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)
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