'Van Gogh's Bedroom was lilac '

- The bedroom of Vincent van Gogh in the southern French town of Arles was not blue but purple. That said, the American art historian Francesca Casadio of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Casadio spoke Sunday at a conference of American Scientists in Washington. They relied on information that Van Gogh himself gave in his letters on his living room in Arles. He painted in Arles in 1888 and 1889 three versions of his bedroom and are all blue.

The bedroom is currently enormous interest. The Art Institute of Chicago is currently one each to see sold-out exhibition (Van Gogh's Bedrooms) on the Dutch painter (1853-1890) and was elsewhere in the city offered a room to rent through Airbnb where the bedroom was recreated and (blue) colored by the museum staff. That space was leased in no time until the end of time in which it was available.