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The Bedroom
Vincent van Gogh · 1889
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sent to his brother, Theo van Gogh (died 1891), Paris, Dec. 18, 1889 [Letter 829 from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, Dec. 19, 1889, notes that The Bedroom was sent the day before]; by descent to Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (died 1925), the Netherlands, 1891; sold to Jos Hessel, Paris, by 1901 [Paris 1901]. Carl Reininghaus, Vienna, by 1909, to at least 1914 [Vienna 1909; Berlin 1914]. Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York, by 1926; sold to Frederic Clay Bartlett, Chicago, Dec. 1926 [receipt and correspondence in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Galerie Vollard, 1895, no cat.
- Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Vincent van Gogh, Mar. 15–31, 1901, cat. 19, as La Chambre de Vincent à Arles.
- Vienna Secession, Internationalen Kunstschau, May–Oct. 1909, room 14, cat. 1, as Das Schlafzimmer.
- Berlin, Paul Cassirer, Zehnte Ausstellung: Vincent van Gogh: 30 März 1853–29 Juli 1890, May–June 1914, cat. 53, as Das Schlafzimmer.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, First Loan Exhibition: Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat, Van Gogh, Nov. 7–Dec. 7, 1929, cat. 79, as Van Gogh's Room at Arles (La Chambre à Arles).
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 376.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 310.
- Toledo Museum of Art, French Impressionists and Post Impressionists, Nov. 1934, cat. 24.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings and Drawings by Vincent van Gogh, lent through the Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., Aug. 26–Sep. 23, 1936, no cat.
- Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Vincent van Gogh Paintings, Mar. 30–July 29, 1990, cat. 7.
- Essen, Museum Folkwang, Vincent van Gogh und die Moderne 1890–1914, Aug. 11–Nov. 4, 1990, cat. 40, as Das Schlafzimmer; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Nov. 16, 1990–Feb. 18, 1991.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South, Sep. 22, 2001–Jan. 13, 2002, cat. 120.
Literature
Published references
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts, "Exhibition of French Paintings from a Well-Known Collection," Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 14, 4 (April 1925), 31–32.
- Forbes Watson, "A Note on the Birch Bartlett Collection," The Arts 9, no. 6 (June 1926): 303–06 (ill.), 307–13.
- R.M.F., “Van Gogh in Arles,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 20, no. 7, (October 1926): 92–94.
- Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1926), 14, pl. 15.
- Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1926), 54 (ill.).
- J[acob]-B[aart] de la Faille, L'Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh: catalogue raisonné (Berlin: G. van Ouest, 1928), vol. 1, 138, no. 484; vol. 2, pl. 134.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch-Bartlett Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1929), 22–23.
- Vincent van Gogh, Further Letters to His Brother, 1886–1889 (London: Constable and Co., 1929), 234–35, 280, 371–72.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), 27 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Guide to the Collections (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1935), 30 (ill.), 31.
- W. Scherjon and Jos. de Gruyter, Vincent van Gogh's Great Period: Arles, St. Rémy and Auvers sur Oise (Complete Catalog) (Amsterdam: De Spieghel, 1937), 140 (ill.), no. 12.
- J[acob]-B[aart] de la Faille, Vincent van Gogh, trans. Prudence Montagu-Pollock (New York: French and European Publications; Paris: Hyperion, 1938), 362 (ill.), no. 510.
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