Vincent s Bedroom in Arles

Vincent s Bedroom in Arles: Vincent van Gogh

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Vincent van Gogh Oil Painting - Vincent s Bedroom in Arles

Work Overview: Bedroom in Arles (Second version)
Artist Vincent van Gogh
Year 1889
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 72 cm × 90 cm (28.3 in × 35.4 in)
Location Art Institute of Chicago

Bedroom in Arles (Third version)
end September 1889
Oil on canvas
57.5 x 74 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Bedroom in Arles (French: La Chambre à Arles; Dutch: Slaapkamer te Arles) is the title given to each of three similar paintings by 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh.

In April 1889, van Gogh sent the initial version to his brother regretting that it had been damaged by the flood of the Rhône while he was interned at the Old Hospital in Arles. Theo proposed to have it relined and sent back to him in order to copy it. This "repetition" in original scale (Van Gogh's term was "répetition") was executed in September 1889. Both paintings were then sent back to Theo.

In summer, 1889, Van Gogh finally decided to redo some of his "best" compositions in smaller size (the term he used was réductions) for his mother and sister Wil, The Bedroom was amongst the subjects he chose.[10] These réductions, finished late in September 1889, are not exact copies.

In The Bedroom the miniature portrait to the left recalls van Gogh's Peasant of Zundert self-portrait. The one to the right cannot be linked convincingly to any existing painting by van Gogh.

The first version never left the artist's estate. Since 1962, it is in the possession of the Vincent van Gogh Foundation, established by Vincent Willem van Gogh, the artist's nephew, and on permanent loan to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

The second version has, since 1926, been the possession of the Art Institute of Chicago as part of the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection.

The third version, formerly in the possession of Van Gogh's sister Wil and later acquired by Prince Matsukata, entered the French national collections in 1959, following the French-Japanese peace settlement, and is on permanent display in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
All three versions of the Bedroom were brought together for the very first time in North America, at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016.

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