The Yellow House painting is located in Van Goghs Museum located in Amsterdam, Holland. This is the house that Van Gogh lived in with Gauguin for a short period of time. This was what he called a dream "Studio of the South," after he didn't like living in the rooms above the Cafe de la Gare. He didn't think the two rooms in the restaurant was enough and he felt like he was being over-charged for something like that so he took them to court and won the case. He decided to use the money to rent a house and began looking for a house after the case was settled.
In May 1888, he rented the yellow house and wrote a letter telling his brother, Theo, about it. He described the house as yellow on the outside and the walls inside of the house as white with a lime-washed color. It has four rooms and he got it for 15 Francs a month. He furnished the rooms and had two of the rooms as closets for his paintings. One of the rooms was decorated for when Gauguin would arrive. He also chose paintings to show Gauguin and he decided to show him his painting of Sunflowers. This was seen in the book Sunflowers.
The Yellow House was painted on a canvas with oil. It took a few steps in order for him to complete this painting. He started off with a blueprint in pencil of the painting. He used brown and black as foundation of the painting to fill in major details. He used a yellow, blue and green palette to give the painting depth. He used quick brush strokes and the technique of stippling which was popular around the time of Neoimpressionists.
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