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The Bedroom
Vincent van Gogh · 1853–1890
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3 variations + a matched story print, every standard frame ratio. 300 DPI · sRGB · personal-use license.
Museum-quality giclée on Hahnemühle German Etching — heavyweight 310gsm, acid-free, velvety matte. Made to order & shipped.
Sizes in the download
Ready-to-print files at every size below — each drops straight into a standard frame at 300 DPI, nothing cropped:
Each of these also prints big-wall at 150 DPI — up to about 36″ on the short side (so the 36×24″ becomes 54×36″), for a step-back view. Or print the borderless master, the full-resolution scan, sharp to about A2.
The work
A picture meant to put the mind at rest.
Its bold colors, thick broken brushwork, and sharply receding lines might suggest a nervous energy, yet Van Gogh intended the opposite. He understood his own bedroom as a calming, restful image, choosing every color deliberately to evoke sleep and rest.
Why a second version exists
This is the copy he painted himself.
Van Gogh made three versions of his Arles bedroom; the original 1888 painting, now in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, was water-damaged in a flood of the Rhone while he was hospitalised in Arles. That is why he made copies, painting this full-size second version in September 1889 at the asylum in Saint-Remy.
Look closer
He weighed the room out in color.
Van Gogh described the walls as pale violet and the floor as red tiles, the bed and chairs as butter yellow and the blanket scarlet red. The window he called green, the dressing table orange, the basin blue, each hue chosen 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
- Open access · personal use
- File
- 300 DPI · sRGB · JPEG
