A bedroom with blue walls, a wooden bed, two chairs, and framed pictures.

Art Institute of Chicago · CC0

Art Institute of Chicago

Painting

The Bedroom

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago

Why it stays

A private room becomes an emotional portrait through compressed perspective and color.

Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago

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Connections

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The same artist, in the same year, turning color into atmosphere.

A field of blue and violet irises with green leaves and one white iris.

Painting

Irises

Vincent van Gogh · 1889

J. Paul Getty Museum