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The Bedroom
Vincent van Gogh · 1853–1890
3 variations + a matched story print, every standard frame ratio. sRGB · up to 300 DPI · personal-use license.
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Sizes in the download
Print-ready files at every standard frame ratio below — the full image, nothing cropped:
The print is crisp at 300 DPI up to about 30×40″, and stays sharp at 150 DPI from across the room, out to about 40×60″.
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The work
A picture meant to put the mind at rest.
The lines of the floor and walls rush back at a sharp angle, the brushwork sits thick and broken, the colours press hard. All of it reads as nervous energy, and Van Gogh meant the reverse. He understood his own bedroom as a calming image and chose every colour to evoke sleep. Agitation on the surface, rest underneath.
Why a second version exists
This is the copy he painted himself.
There are three versions of this Arles bedroom. The first, painted in 1888 and now in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, was water-damaged when the Rhône flooded while Van Gogh was hospitalised in Arles. So he made copies. This full-size second version he painted in September 1889, from the asylum at Saint-Rémy, by his own hand.
Look closer
He weighed the room out in colour.
Pale violet on the walls, red tiles underfoot. Van Gogh called the bed and chairs butter yellow and the blanket scarlet red; the window green, the dressing table orange, the basin blue. None of it was incidental. He picked each hue to suggest rest, or sleep.
looking at the painting should rest the mind, or rather, the imagination— Vincent van Gogh, 1888
The file & the facts
- Title
- The Bedroom
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh
- Year
- 1889
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original
- 73.6 × 92.3 cm
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Rights
- Public-domain painting · open access · Art Institute of Chicago — Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection, 1926.417 (CC0, courtesy)
- File
- sRGB · JPEG · 150–300 DPI
