 | The Bedroom |
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Date : 1889
Sizes : 92 cm x 74 cm
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection (1926)
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French Painting
Painting
Area related
Arles (France)
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On October 11, 1888, when Vincent van Gogh was in Arles, he wrote to his brother Theo: "Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of color to express myself more forcefully." A few days later, he completed his first version of The Bedroom (Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum).
The Art Institute's canvas, executed by the artist in September 1889, is the second version of the composition (a third is in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris). It features a different set of paintings on the walls than does the original, and its tile floor, muted red with green interstices in the Amsterdam canvas, consists of patches of aquamarine with black-brown outlines over gray underpainting. | More pictures | |
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