The Artist's Bedroom At Arles

Bedroom in Arles (French: La Chambre à Arles; Dutch: Slaapkamer te Arles) is the title given to three similar paintings by 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh's own title for this composition was simply The Bedroom (French: La Chambre à coucher). The famous bedroom painting by Vincent van Gogh was first painted in 1888 when the Dutch artist lived in the French city called Arles.

He lived in a "Yellow House" and waited for the artist Paul Gauguin's arrival, which would eventually lead to perilous events. His bedroom was a place of comfort and repose, which he painted. This article will explore this famous Van Gogh bedroom painting.

The Bedroom At Arles, 1888 by Vincent van Gogh The Bedroom At Arles, 1888 by Vincent van Gogh To Van Gogh this picture was an expression of 'perfect rest', or 'sleep in general'. The bright, cheerful little room has become a field of rapid convergences, sharp angles, and contrasts of high color. Bedroom in Arles by van Gogh is a serene environment for the artist, and the composition and colours are thought by the artist to communicate all his positive feelings he had at that time.

For example, the artist painted the version housed in the Musée d'Orsay for his family, so that they could feel the serenity that place gave him. In this post, I take a closer look at Bedroom in Arles by Vincent van Gogh. 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 had immediately and enthusiastically set about decorating, painting a suite of canvases to fill the walls. The Bedroom - a quiet painting showing Vincent van Gogh's mastery of color, fascination with Japanese prints, and hopes for the Studio of the South in Arles. While he was in Arles, Van Gogh made this painting of his bedroom in the Yellow House.

He prepared the room himself with simple furniture and with his own work on the wall. Van Gogh produced three, almost identical paintings on the theme of his bedroom. The first, in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, was executed in October 1888, and damaged during a flood that occurred while the painter was in hospital in Arles.

Almost a year later, Van Gogh made two copies of it: one, the same size, is now in the Art Institute in Chicago; the other, in the Musée d'Orsay. Vincent's Bedroom in Arles is one of the artist's best known paintings. The striking colours, unusual perspective and familiar subject matter create a work that is not only among Van Gogh's most popular, but also one that he himself held as one of his own personal favourites.