The Night Café
1888 · Oil on canvas · Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
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About this work
- Artist
- Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)
- Year
- 1888
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 72.4 × 92.1 cm
- Collection
- Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
The Café de la Gare in Arles at night: blood-red walls, a green ceiling, four hanging lamps with haloes of yellow, a billiard table with its long shadow, and a few customers slumped at the tables while the proprietor in white stands by. Van Gogh painted it over three nights in September 1888, staying up until dawn, and wrote to Theo that he had tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green, and that the café was a place where one could ruin oneself, go mad or commit a crime. He gave it to the landlord Ginoux in payment of rent. It passed through the collection of Ivan Morozov in Moscow, was sold by the Soviet government in 1933 and came to the Yale University Art Gallery with the Stephen Clark bequest.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A red-walled café with a green ceiling, yellow lamps and a billiard table, for a dining room, bar corner or study at 24×36 in black. Deep green, charcoal or mustard walls suit the clash of colour; pair it with Café Terrace at Night.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1888)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- dining room, study or library, 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.
