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''Bedroom in Arles'' ((フランス語:La Chambre à Arles); (オランダ語:Slaapkamer te Arles)) is the title given to each of three similar paintings by 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh's own title for this composition was simply ''The Bedroom'' (French: ''La Chambre à coucher''). There are three authentic versions described in his letters, easily discernible from one another by the pictures on the wall to the right. The painting depicts Van Gogh's bedroom at 2, Place Lamartine in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, known as his Yellow House. The door to the right opened on to the upper floor and the staircase; the door to the left was that of the guest room he held prepared for Gauguin; the window in the front wall looked on to Place Lamartine and its public gardens. This room was not rectangular but trapezoid with an obtuse angle in the left hand corner of the front wall and an acute angle at the right.〔Though the building was damaged in an air-raid, June 25, 1944, and laid down afterwards, floor plans by Lèon Ramser, an Arlesian architect, dating from the 1920s have survived and supply most of the essential information, see: Roland Dorn, ''"Décoration": Vincent van Goghs Werkreihe für das Gelbe Haus in Arles'', Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Zürich & New York, 1990, plate XIX/XX〕 Van Gogh evidently did not spend much time on this problem, he simply indicated that there was a corner, somehow. ==First version== Van Gogh started the first version during mid October 1888 while staying in Arles, and explained his aims and means to his brother Theo: :''This time it simply reproduces my bedroom; but colour must be abundant in this part, its simplification adding a rank of grandee to the style applied to the objects, getting to suggest a certain rest or dream. Well, I have thought that on watching the composition we stop thinking and imagining. I have painted the walls pale violet. The ground with checked material. The wooden bed and the chairs, yellow like fresh butter; the sheet and the pillows, lemon light green. The bedspread, scarlet coloured. The window, green. The washbasin, orangey; the tank, blue. The doors, lilac. And, that is all. There is not anything else in this room with closed shutters. The square pieces of furniture must express unswerving rest; also the portraits on the wall, the mirror, the bottle, and some costumes. The white colour has not been applied to the picture, so its frame will be white, aimed to get me even with the compulsory rest recommended for me. I have depicted no type of shade or shadow; I have only applied simple plain colours, like those in crêpes.''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh : 16 October 1888 )〕 Van Gogh included sketches of the composition in this letter as well as in a letter to Gauguin, written slightly later.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vincent van Gogh to Paul Gauguin : 17 October 1888 )〕 In the letter, Van Gogh explained that the painting had come out of a sickness that left him bedridden for days.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=706 )〕 This version has on the wall to the right miniatures of Van Gogh's portraits of his friends Eugène Boch and Paul-Eugène Milliet. The portrait of Eugène Boch is called ''The Poet'' and the portrait of Paul Eugène Milliet is called ''The Lover.''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=De minnaar (portret van luitenant Milliet) - Kröller-Müller Museum )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Eugene Boch.com - Impressionist and friend of Vincent van Gogh )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bedroom in Arles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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