Did Van Gogh's Yellow House turn blue after his death?

"Today I rented the right-hand wing of this building... it's painted yellow outside, whitewashed inside. Set in Place Lamartine, near the railway station, the building had two wings. The left side was occupied by a grocery shop (it has a pink awning in Van Gogh's painting). The right side (with the green windows) was Van Gogh's, with two small bedrooms upstairs, his studio was behind the front door and the kitchen was at the rear."

"The facade was painted yellow when Van Gogh took it on, but it must have been faded because he soon had it repainted - in yellow, of course. Although the artist was always short of money, he did not wield the paintbrush himself, but got someone else to do it. From then on Van Gogh lovingly called it 'my little yellow house'. Yellow was his favourite colour - and this may have even have helped swing his decision to rent that house."

"Initially Van Gogh just used the Yellow House as his studio and then from September 1888 he also slept there. In October Paul Gauguin came to stay, until the terrible evening of 23 December when Van Gogh mutilated his ear. The grocery shop and Van Gogh's former home were turned into a café-bar and tobacco shop in the 1920s, the Civette Arlésienne."

Van Gogh rented the right wing of a building in Arles on May 1, 1888, which he famously called the Yellow House. The facade was already yellow when he arrived, though faded, and he had it repainted yellow to match his preference for the color. The building contained his studio, bedrooms, and kitchen. After Van Gogh's departure, the property was converted into a café-bar and tobacco shop called Civette Arlésienne in the 1920s. Evidence from the late 1930s reveals the exterior was painted blue before the building was bombed during World War II and subsequently demolished.

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