Café Terrace at Night
1888 · Oil on canvas · Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
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About this work
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)
- Year
- 1888
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 80.7 × 65.3 cm
- Collection
- Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
A café on the Place du Forum in Arles, its awning lit by a gas lamp, with customers at the tables, a waiter in white, cobblestones running toward the dark street and a sky full of stars. Van Gogh painted it on the spot in September 1888, setting up his easel outdoors at night, which was unusual at the time. He wrote to his sister that he wanted to paint the night without using black, and the picture does so: the shadows are blue and violet, set against the lemon-yellow terrace. It was his first night scene and led directly to Starry Night over the Rhône a few weeks later. The painting was bought by Helene Kröller-Müller and is in her museum at Otterlo in the Netherlands.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Lemon-yellow terrace against a blue-violet night is made for a dining room or the wall behind a bar cart, where it reads in low evening light. Black frame, deep blue or charcoal wall, 24×36 as the single statement piece.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1888)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- dining room, home bar, living room, dorm room, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
