The Bedroom, 1888
Vincent van Gogh
Oil on canvas · 72 x 90 cm
Van Gogh's own room at Arles, tilted and vivid, painted as a vision of rest.
Van Gogh painted his own small bedroom in Arles in 1888, tilting the floor and flattening the space to convey, in his words, absolute 'rest.' The frank blues, buttery yellows and paired objects make it one of art's most intimate, human interiors.
What you're looking at
Everything in the room is paired: two chairs, two pillows, two doors, two portraits on the wall. Van Gogh tilts the floor up and flattens the walls so the space folds toward you, and he paints no shadows at all — an odd, deliberate absence once you notice it. The colour is the argument rather than the description: blue-violet walls set against raw yellow furniture, a red blanket, a green window, complements chosen to make a small room vibrate.
On a Frame TV
Near 5:4, closer to square than to a television. The clean crop has to take the ceiling and some of the floor, which costs the tilt the picture is built on, so the matted file is the better choice here. Warm, mid-toned and quiet; it suits a bedroom and low light, which is more or less what it was painted about.
- 4K master file (3840px+)
- Samsung Frame TV–ready crop
- Phone wallpaper crop
- Printable art card
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