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Room 3: The Yellow House: An Artist's Home
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The Yellow House (right) on the Place Lamartine at Arles © Album / Alamy Stock Photo
Initially Van Gogh only used the Yellow House, which he rented in early May 1888, as a studio because it needed both renovation and furniture. By September he moved in and had bold plans to turn the modest house into an 'artist's home' and a communal 'studio of the South' in which his artist friends from Paris could join him to work. He devised a decoration for the house that included his major paintings. This then evolved into carefully conceived ideas about how to present his art to the public. The works in this gallery were part of his ambitions.