Van Gogh's bedrooms
(2016)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
759.9492/VAN

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 759.9492/VAN Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, [2016]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

165 pages (1 folded leaf) : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 32 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780300214864, 0300214863
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"Van Gogh's Bedrooms was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title organized by and presented at the Art Institute of Chicago, February 14 to May 10, 2016."

"Over the course of his life, Van Gogh lived in thirty-seven different homes. In 1888 the artist moved into the only place he considered his own: his beloved "Yellow House" in Arles, France. His second-floor bedroom became a sanctuary, and it inspired him to record it in paint. Van Gogh so prized The Bedroom, which he deemed one of his best canvases, that he created two similar but distinct versions of it almost a year later, after being forced to leave his Yellow House following a nervous breakdown. In this reunion at the Art Institute of Chicago, the public has the extraordinary opportunity to see these three paintings hanging together as they did in Van Gogh's asylum studio. Presented only in Chicago, Van Gogh's Bedrooms is a momentous occasion that, along with this accompanying catalogue, sheds new light on these iconic compositions and the circumstances of their making. The exhibition is groundbreaking also because it is the first to consider the theme of home in the artist's work"--

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