page_title: Bedroom in Arles
section_title: Third version
hierarchical_section_title: Bedroom in Arles / Third version
context_page_description: Bedroom in Arles is the title given to each of 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. There are three authentic versions described in his letters, easily distinguishable from one another by the pictures on the wall to the right.
  The painting depicts van Gogh's bedroom at 2, Place Lamartine in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, known as the Yellow House. The door to the right opened on to the upper floor and the staircase; the door to the left was that of the guest room he held prepared for Gauguin; the window in the front wall looked on to Place Lamartine and its public gardens.
  This room was not rectangular but trapezoid with an obtuse angle in the left hand corner of the front wall and an acute angle at the right.
context_section_description: In summer, 1889, Van Gogh finally decided to redo some of his "best" compositions in a smaller size (the term he used was réductions) for his mother and his sister Wil, The Bedroom was among the subjects he chose. These réductions, finished late in September 1889, are not exact copies.
  
  In The Bedroom, the miniature portrait to the left recalls van Gogh's Peasant of Zundert self-portrait. The one to the right cannot be linked convincingly to any existing painting by van Gogh.
caption: Third version, end September 1889. Oil on canvas, 57.5 x 74 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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