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Room 5: Decoration
Van Gogh developed his decoration of the Yellow House into a concept for the presentation of his work that could stand alongside the paintings of his contemporaries and even be transferred for exhibition in Paris. Throughout his time in Provence, he dispatched his work to his brother in the capital and submitted pictures to exhibitions in Paris and Brussels. Visitors also came to Theo's flat to see Vincent’s work. After Van Gogh’s first mental breakdown at the end of 1888, and subsequent crises in the following spring, during which time he lost possession of the Yellow House, he carried on developing his ideas for the decoration. One of his most famous groupings, devised during the spring of 1889 when he was in Saint-Rémy, is recreated in this room: two Sunflower pictures flanking La Berceuse.