Van Gogh Cafe Terrace At Night Museum

Vincent van gogh s terrace of a cafe at night 1888 is among the most recognizable paintings in history.

Van gogh cafe terrace at night museum.

Café terrace at night is one of three arles paintings that feature van gogh s distinctive star filled sky. Van gogh s iconic post impressionistic star filled sky appears for the first time in his café terrace at night 5. Starry night over the rhone and starry night complete the trilogy. 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.

The night is painted with no black in the sky it features only a blue sky with van gogh s unique star motifs. Its atmospheric palette and the contrast between the quiet nighttime cobbles and the. 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. In 1888 vincent van gogh painted café terrace at night during his stay in arles.

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 subject of that discourse was something far less likely. Van gogh wrote many letters to his brother theo van gogh and often included details of his latest work. Van gogh painted café terrace at night in arles france in mid september 1888.

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. It is part of the kröller müller museum collection. It s oil on canvas about 32 x 25 in 81 x 65 cm. The cafe is illuminated with sulfur pale yellow and citron green.

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. Café terrace at night is an 1888 oil painting by the dutch artist vincent van gogh. A famed 1888 painting by vincent van gogh called café terrace at night and a reinterpretation of the french post impressionist s.