![]() ![]() He wanted a gallery to display his work, and started a series of paintings that eventually included Van Gogh's Chair (1888), Bedroom in Arles (1888), The Night Café (1888), Cafe Terrace at Night (September 1888), Starry Night Over the Rhone (1888), and Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers (1888), all intended for the decoration for the Yellow House. The Yellow House, at 2 place Lamartine, had to be furnished before he could fully move in, but he was able to use it as a studio. ![]() He had befriended the proprietors, Joseph and Marie Ginoux. ![]() On Van Gogh moved from the Hôtel Carrel to the Café de la Gare, at Arles, in the south of France. It has become one of Van Gogh's most iconic images, to the extent that Van Gogh's cataloger Jan Hulsker noted that "there are few pictures of Vincent's about which so much was written in later years." Background In the background is an onion box with Van Gogh's name on it. On the chair seat is a decorated pipe and a pouch of pipe tobacco. The painting shows a rustic wooden chair, with a simple woven straw seat, on a tiled floor. ![]() It is currently held by the National Gallery, London. Van Gogh's Chair is a painting created in 1888 by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. ![]()
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