The Artist\u27s Room at Arles (detail) Van Gogh\u27s Bedroom in Arles. Saint-R

Vincent\u27s Bedroom in Arles is one of the artist\u27s best known paintings. The striking colours, unusual perspective and familiar subject matter create a work that is not only among Van Gogh\u27s most popular, but also one that he himself held as one of his own personal favourites. As Van Gogh described in a letter to his brother, My eyes are still tired by then I had a new idea in my head and here is the sketch of it. Another size 30 canvas. This time it\u27s just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything, and giving by its simplification a grander style to things, is to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, looking at the picture ought to rest the brain, or rather the imagination.https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/saskia/3915/thumbnail.jp