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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, and, 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 ...
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In the first days of September 1888, Van Gogh sat up for three consecutive nights to paint the picture, sleeping during the day. [5] Van Gogh's Cafe Terrace at Night, showing outdoor tables, a street scene and the night sky, was painted in Arles at about the same time. It depicts a different cafe, a larger establishment on the Place du Forum. [2]
The word coffee in various European languages [10]. The most common English spelling of café is the French word for both coffee and coffeehouse; [11] [12] it was adopted by English-speaking countries in the late 19th century. [13]
Two Sisters or On the Terrace is an 1881 oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.The dimensions of the painting are 100.5 cm × 81 cm. [1] The title Two Sisters (French: Les Deux Sœurs) was given to the painting by Renoir, and the title On the Terrace (French: Sur la terrasse) by its first owner Paul Durand-Ruel.
Arab Coffeehouse [a] (French name: Le café Maure), is an oil-on-canvas painting by French visual artist Henri Matisse. Produced in 1913, Arab Coffeehouse was part of a series of goldfish paintings that Matisse produced in the 1910s and 1920s.
Masterpieces of Western Art: A History of Art in 900 Individual Studies from the Gothic to the Present Day. Taschen. ISBN 3-8228-1825-9. Taylor, William Edward and Harriet Garcia Warkel, Margaret Taylor Burroughs. (authors) Indianapolis Museum of Art. (ed.) (1996). A Shared Heritage: Art by Four African Americans. Undiana University Press.
In the painting Van Gogh expressed his new impressions from southern France and the painting depicts a sidewalk cafe in Arles, then Café Terrace[citation needed] (now renamed to Café van Gogh.) In French, the "terrace" (terrasse) of a café simply denotes the outside area where patrons can sit.