The historian expert on Vincent van Gogh, Martin Bailey, said yesterday that the bed where you slept, the artist, when he lived in the French city of Arles could have ended up in a house in Boxmeer, a Dutch municipality close to the border with Germany, after the Second World War.
Bailey is based on his discovery of a letter written in 1937 by the cousin of the artist, Vincent Willem, in that account that you still have the bed of their famous uncle, who committed suicide in 1890.
"This was a letter key which shows that the bed survived and was carried to Holland," said the expert in the public television channel WE.
Bailey contacted Johan van Gogh, 94 years old, the son oldest of the cousin of the artist, "and, to my great surprise, he remembered the bed," he pointed out.
Vincent van Gogh painted three versions of The bedroom. The 1888 is hanging in the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. The other two were painted in 1889 and exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago and the Musée d’orsay in Paris. The Van Gogh museum commented to Bailey: "it Would be interesting if they would find the bed." (I)
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