Van Gogh Cafe Terrace At Night Museum

Starry night over the rhone and starry night complete the trilogy.

Van gogh cafe terrace at night museum.

Van gogh painted café terrace at night in arles france in mid september 1888. Van gogh s cafe terrace at night showing outdoor tables a street scene and the night sky was painted in arles at about the same time. The cafe is illuminated with sulfur pale yellow and citron green. Café terrace at night by vincent van gogh depicts the terrace of the café on the place du forum in arles france in the night.

Van gogh s iconic post impressionistic star filled sky appears for the first time in his café terrace at night 5. Van gogh wrote many letters to his brother theo van gogh and often included details of his latest work. It is also known as the cafe terrace on the place du forum and when first exhibited in 1891 was entitled coffeehouse in the evening café le soir. The original café terrace which inspired this painting also still exists at place du forum arles at the very same place where van gogh painted this masterpiece.

Other names it goes by are café terrace on the place du forum café at night or simply night café. The café terrace at night still exists and can be found at the kröller müller museum in otterlo netherlands home to the second largest collection of van gogh paintings. Its atmospheric palette and the contrast between the quiet nighttime cobbles and the. Café terrace at night is one of three arles paintings that feature van gogh s distinctive star filled sky.

The subject of that discourse was something far less likely. Vincent van gogh s terrace of a cafe at night 1888 is among the most recognizable paintings in history. A famed 1888 painting by vincent van gogh called café terrace at night and a reinterpretation of the french post impressionist s. It depicts a different cafe a larger establishment on the place du forum.

The night is painted with no black in the sky it features only a blue sky with van gogh s unique star motifs. It s oil on canvas about 32 x 25 in 81 x 65 cm. Vincent van gogh terrace of a café at night 1888 let everything will look again like at the painting from the kröller müller museum collection thus speaks zarathustra the cat buy this artwork as a canvas print or as a poster.