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 exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. 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 16×24. 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
- Exhibition poster of a Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1888)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- bedroom, living room, dining room, dorm room, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
