Van Gogh’s Bedroom

On Loan from the Art institute of Chicago, The Bedroom is now being featured in the Norton Simon Museum until March 6th.  This vibrant painting features one of Van Gogh’s beloved bedrooms. He was so encompassed by his living space that he produced three paintings of the same Yellow Room. One sits in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, another in Paris, and the last calls Chicago its home but is visiting Pasadena until March 6th.

Van Gogh’s Bedroom serves not only as a kind of self-portrait, but also as a symbol of the artist’s wandering existence and search for an elusive sense of repose. The second of three versions of the interior scene, the Chicago Bedroom was painted by the artist while at the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in September 1889. Its installation at the Norton Simon Museum marks the first time the painting has been on view on the West Coast, and it will hang in the Museum’s 19^th -century art wing, surrounded by the Simon’s own important collection of Van Gogh works.

Come check out this amazing work of art before it goes back to Chicago!