Café Terrace at Night, 1888, Vincent Van Gogh.

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Café Terrace at Night, is an 1888 oil painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It is also known as The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum. When first exhibited in 1891, was entitled Coffeehouse, in the evening (Café, le soir).

Van Gogh painted Café Terrace at Night in Arles, France, in mid-September 1888. The painting is not signed, but described and mentioned by the artist in three letters.

Towards the right, Van Gogh indicated a lighted shop as well, and some branches of the trees surrounding the place, but he omitted the remainders of the Roman monuments just beside this little shop.

The painting is currently at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands.

This is a night painting without black, with nothing but beautiful blue and violet and green, and in this surrounding the illuminated area, colors itself sulfur pale yellow and citron green.

This is the first painting in which he used starry backgrounds; he went on to paint star-filled skies in “Starry Night Over the Rhône” (painted the same month), and the better known “The Starry Night” a year later. Van Gogh also painted a starlight background in “Portrait of Eugène Boch”.

Van Gogh mentioned the Cafe Terrace painting in a letter written to Eugène Boch on October 2, 1888, writing he had painted "a view of the café on place du Forum, where we used to go, painted at night".

If you Want to download the complete archive about Van Gogh (272 pic/900 mb), here is it the link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uUyPKaZGMzc2qf3PVhMYagXr6Dl11396
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