Artists Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh had a volatile and somewhat lopsided friendship. Van Gogh was living in Arles in 1888, and wanted Gaugin to come live with him there, where he imagined they would paint together and found an artist’s colony. Gaugin had a sense of foreboding about that plan, but finally relented and said he would go to Arles for a temporary stay.
Despite his destitution, Van Gogh spent whatever money he had on two beds, which he set up in the same small bedroom. Seeking to make his modest sleeping quarters “as nice as possible, like a…
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