What is the title of Van Gogh's painting of his bedroom in Arles?

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The title of Van Gogh’s painting of his bedroom in Arles is Bedroom in Arles.

The name refers to a series of three related paintings made between 1888 and 1889. They depict Van Gogh’s room at the Yellow House on 2 Place Lamartine in Arles, where he hoped to establish an artists’ community. His own title was simply The Bedroom, or La Chambre à coucher in French.

Van Gogh painted the first version in October 1888. After it was damaged by flooding, he made a full-size repetition in 1889 and then a smaller version for his mother and sister. The three paintings can be distinguished by the small pictures shown on the wall. Today, the versions are held by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The title is sometimes shortened to The Bedroom, but Bedroom in Arles is the standard English title for the series.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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