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The Art Institute of Chicago — public domain (CC0). Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection Source

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Vincent van Gogh

Dutch, 1853–1890

The Bedroom

Date: 1889
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 73.6 × 92.3 cm (29 × 36 5/8 in.); Framed: 88.9 × 108 × 8.9 cm (35 × 42 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.)
Inscription: Signed lower right
Department: Impressionist & Modern Art

Estimate £38,000,000 – 52,000,000

Offered in Impressionist & Modern Art — Evening Sale, 3 September 2026

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A Under raking light

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Relief

Derived from this photograph by shape-from-shading, as a reading aid. A measured relief map requires photometric stereo and accompanies the full condition report.

B Catalogue note

Provenance

Private collection, Paris
By descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Amsterdam, retrospective exhibition, 1905, no. 122
London, loan exhibition of Post-Impressionist painting, 1962

Literature

de la Faille, Catalogue raisonné, no. 483
Hulsker, The Complete Van Gogh, no. 1771

Condition

Unlined. The paint surface is stable, with the artist's characteristic impasto well preserved throughout. Examined under raking light and ultraviolet; a full report is available.

This is a summary. A full written condition report, with raking-light and ultraviolet photography, is issued on request and forms part of the description.

C In the same sale