The Bedroom
1888 · Oil on canvas · Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
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About this work
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)
- Year
- 1888
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 72.4 × 91.3 cm
- Collection
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (the first of three versions)
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
Van Gogh's own bedroom in the Yellow House at Arles: a plain wooden bed with a red cover, two rush chairs, a small table with a jug and basin, and his pictures hanging on the pale violet walls. He painted it in October 1888, just before Gauguin arrived, and described it in a letter as a picture meant to express rest, with flat colours like a Japanese print. The tilted floor and converging walls are partly the room's own odd shape and partly his choice. This is the first version; water damage during a flood led him to paint a second in Saint-Rémy in 1889, now in Chicago, and a smaller third for his mother, now in Paris. The original has been in the Van Gogh Museum since it opened.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A picture meant to express rest, so a bedroom is the place, over the bed or dresser at 24×18. The pale violet walls and red cover suit natural wood on a white wall; it also works in a guest room as a quiet welcome.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1888)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- bedroom, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×18. Prints at 16×12, 24×18 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or natural wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
Shipping & returns
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
