Vincent van Gogh The Night Cafe

Posted by admin in Museum Masterpieces on 04 7th, 2008 | no responses
Artist: Vincent van GoghTitle: The Night CafeFrame: Black with Beaded Edge and Patina -1inMat: Coconut Milk/FlandersVan Gogh often ate at The Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles.

It was able to stay open all night due to the new invention of gas lighting.

His rendering of the cafi, heavily saturated with reds, greens and yellow evokes the atmosphere and emotion Van Gogh himself must have experienced there.


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