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On loan from the Musee D\u2019Orsay, the popular Vincent\u2019s Bedroom in Arles<\/em><\/a>, is currently on display at The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) in an exhibition titled Guest of Honor: Van Gogh\u2019s Bedroom in Arles<\/a>.\u00a0 The painting will be displayed along with three other paintings by Van Gogh including Self Portrait with Straw Hat<\/em> \u2013 1887<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a letter to his brother, Theo, on October 16, 1888, Van Gogh wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis time it’s just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, looking at the picture ought to rest the brain, or rather the imagination.<\/p>\n

The walls are pale violet. The floor is of red tiles.<\/p>\n

The wood of the bed and chairs is the yellow of fresh butter, the sheets and pillows very light greenish-citron.<\/p>\n

The coverlet scarlet. The window green.<\/p>\n

The toilet table orange, the basin blue.<\/p>\n

The doors lilac.<\/p>\n

And that is all – there is nothing in this room with its closed shutters.<\/p>\n

The squareness of the furniture again must express inviolable rest. Portraits on the walls, and a mirror and a towel and some clothes.<\/p>\n

The frame – as there is no white in the picture – will be white.<\/p>\n

This by way of revenge for the enforced rest I was obliged to take.<\/p>\n

I shall work on it again all day, but you see how simple the conception is. The shadows and the cast shadows are suppressed; it is painted in free flat tints like the Japanese prints. It is going to be a contrast to, for instance, the Tarascon diligence and the night caf\u00e9.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In another letter on October 17, 1888, again mentioning the bedroom, he wrote,<\/p>\n

\u201cThis bedroom is something like the still life of the \u201cRomans Parisiens\u201d with the yellow, pink and green covers, you remember it. But I think the workmanship is more virile and simple. No stippling, no hatching, nothing, only flat colours in harmony.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also on October 17, 1888, Van Gogh wrote to Gauguin about the painting,<\/p>\n

\u201cI have done, still for my decoration, a size 30 canvas of my bedroom with the white deal furniture that you know. Well, I enormously enjoyed doing this interior of nothing at all. Of a simplicity \u00e0 la Seurat.<\/p>\n

With flat tints, but brushed on roughly, with a thick impasto, the walls pale lilac, the ground a faded broken red, the chairs and the bed chrome yellow, the pillows and the sheet a very pale green-citron, the blanket blood red, the washstand orange, the washbasin blue, the window green. By means of all these very diverse tones I have wanted to express an absolute restfulness<\/em>, you see, and there is no white in it at all except a little note produced by the mirror with its black frame (in order to get the fourth pair of complementaries into it).\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clearly Van Gogh was pleased with his work.\u00a0 He created five different versions of his bedroom, 3 in oil and 2 in letter sketches.\u00a0 The 3 paintings vary only slightly in minor details.\u00a0 It is believed that the version of the painting that is on display at the DIA is a copy of the original which Van Gogh produced while in the\u00a0asylum in Saint-Remy.<\/p>\n

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