Vincent van Gogh's Décoration for the Yellow House

The Décoration for the Yellow House was the main project Vincent van Gogh focused on in Arles, from August 1888 until his breakdown the day before Christmas. This Décoration had no pre-defined form or size; the central idea of the Décoration grew step by step, with the progress of his work. Starting with the Sunflowers, portraits were included in the next step. Finally, mid-September 1888, the idea took shape: from this time on he concentrated on size 30 canvases (Toiles de 30), which were all meant to form part of this Décoration.^[1]

Contents 1 First idea: The Sunflowers, August 1888 2 Second step: The Portraits, September - October 1888 3 Third step and definite solution: The Toiles de 30-Décoration, October - December 1888 4 Epilogue: The Toiles de 30, January - April 1889 4.1 Repetitions 4.2 Spring Subjects 4.3 Continuation 5 Resources 5.1 Notes 5.2 References

First idea: The Sunflowers, August 1888

Second step: The Portraits, September - October 1888

Third step and definite solution: The Toiles de 30-Décoration, October - December 1888

• For a related project by Van Gogh executed at the same time, in November/December 1888, see The Roulin Family (Van Gogh series)

Epilogue: The Toiles de 30, January - April 1889

Repetitions

Spring Subjects

Continuation

Later, in Saint-Rémy as well as in Auvers, size 30 canvases form the body of Van Gogh's work, and he continued conceiving series and groups of work based on this size. See The Wheat Field, the Copies by Vincent van Gogh and the Display at Les XX 1890, all from Saint-Rèmy, and the Auvers size 30 canvases.

Resources

Notes

1. ^ This fact, widely neglected for decades, recently seems to have become common knowledge; see Zemel, Schneede.
2. ^ The Red Vineyard, the only painting van Gogh sold during his lifetime

References

• Dorn, Roland: Décoration: Vincent van Gogh's Werkreihe für das Gelbe Haus in Arles, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Zürich & New York 1990 ISBN 3-487-09098-8 / ISSN 0175-9558

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