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Today Is Art Day Patch - Café Terrace - Van Gogh
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About Today Is Art Day Patch - Café Terrace - Van Gogh
Café Terrace at Night by Vincent van Gogh
About Café Terrace at Night
Painted in 1888 while Van Gogh was staying in Arles, this work depicts the Place du Forum. 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.
In a letter to his sister, Van Gogh wrote:
“Now there’s a painting of night without black. With nothing but beautiful blue, violet and green, and in these surroundings the lighted square is colored pale sulphur, lemon green. I enormously enjoy painting on the spot at night. In the past they used to draw, and paint the picture from the drawing in the daytime. But I find that it suits me to paint the thing straightaway.”
The painting now resides at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands.
