Curator Gloria Groom, Chair of the Art Institute of Chicago’s European Painting and Sculpture Department, will be presenting a lecture about Van Gogh’s “Bedroom in Arles,” this Saturday, January 7, 4 p.m. at Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum.

The painting – actually three paintings of the same room where the artist lived in Arles – is arguably the most famous chambre in the history of art and the painting the artist considered his finest.
The second of these pictures – on loan from the Art Center of Chicago – is on display at the Norton Simon Museum until March 6.

Dr. Groom will draw the lecture from her involvement with the exhibition and catalogue of the Art Institute’s 2016 exhibition Van Gogh’s Bedrooms to explore the significance of the motif for the artist’s life and what can be learned from the documentary, scientific and physical evidence pertaining to all three versions of this painting.

Groom, also currently the Art Institute’s David and Mary Winton Green Curator, is known best for her work related to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and has written about the work of Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard.

In 2013, the same year she was named the Art Institute’s first senior curator, Groom curated the museum’s “Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity” show, which also went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

Groom’s lecture Saturday is free with admission. The Norton Simon Museum is located at 411 W. Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena.

For more information, call (626) 449-6840, or visit www.nortonsimon.org.