"in Arles in early September 1888, followed by ""Starry Night Over the Rhone"" later that same month. Van Gogh's written statements concerning these paintings provide further insight into his intentions for painting night studies in general and ""The Starry Night"" in particular. Soon after his arrival in Arles in February 1888, Van Gogh wrote to Theo, ""I . . . need a starry night with cypresses or—perhaps above a field of ripe wheat; there are some really beautiful nights here."" That same week, he wrote to Bernard, ""A starry sky is something I should like to try to do, just"
"be furnished before he could fully move in, but he was able to use it as a studio. He wanted a gallery to display his work, and started a series of paintings that eventually included ""Van Gogh's Chair"" (1888), ""Bedroom in Arles"" (1888), ""The Night Café"" (1888), ""Cafe Terrace at Night"" (September 1888), ""Starry Night Over the Rhone"" (1888), and ""Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers"" (1888), all intended for the decoration for the Yellow House. Van Gogh's Chair Van Gogh's Chair is a painting created in 1888 by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It is currently held by the"
"The Café-Concert (painting) The Café-Concert is an 1879 painting by the French painter Édouard Manet, who often captured café scenes depicting social life at the end of the nineteenth century similar to those depicted in this painting. The setting has been identified as the Brasserie Reichshoffen on the Boulevard Rochechouart. Manet shows us men and women in the new brasseries and cafes of Paris, which presents the viewer with an alternate view of new Parisian life. Manet claimed he was painting “des oeuvres sinceres” or “sincere works”. The women depicted in these scenes were courting certain risks with regards to"
"Cafe Neon (Night) Cafe Neon (Night) (Greek: Καφενείον το Νέον (Νύχτα)) is an oil painting by Yannis Tsarouchis created between 1965–1966. The painting's dimensions are 127 x 180 centimeters. It is in the collection of the National Gallery in Athens. It depicts the facade of the eponymous cafe, which exists today in Omonia Square in Athens. In this series, it is preceded by ""Cafe Neon (Day)"". The theme of ""coffee shops"" has occupied Tsarouhis repeatedly within the overall interest to study the contemporary urban landscape, not only in space but also as a social context and version of an overall"
"transcription of the experience. He wrote: Cafe Neon (Night) Cafe Neon (Night) (Greek: Καφενείον το Νέον (Νύχτα)) is an oil painting by Yannis Tsarouchis created between 1965–1966. The painting's dimensions are 127 x 180 centimeters. It is in the collection of the National Gallery in Athens. It depicts the facade of the eponymous cafe, which exists today in Omonia Square in Athens. In this series, it is preceded by ""Cafe Neon (Day)"". The theme of ""coffee shops"" has occupied Tsarouhis repeatedly within the overall interest to study the contemporary urban landscape, not only in space but also as a social"
"October of that year, in a motion which stated “it is well-established that a foreign nation’s taking of its own national’s property within its own borders does not violate international law,” claiming that both the Soviet and Yale acquisitions of the painting were therefore legal. On March 27, 2016 the United States Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Konowaloff regarding the case, siding with a federal appeals court in New York cited the “act of state” doctrine. The rejection means Yale's ownership is absolute. The Night Café The Night Café () is an oil painting created by Dutch artist Vincent"
"(1888), and ""Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers"" (1888), all intended for the decoration for the Yellow House. Van Gogh wrote that with ""The Night Café"" he tried ""to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime"". When he visited Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in June, he gave lessons to a Zouave second lieutenant – – and painted boats on the sea and the village. MacKnight introduced Van Gogh to Eugène Boch, a Belgian painter who sometimes stayed in Fontvieille, and the two exchanged visits in July. When Gauguin agreed to"
"depicts a different cafe, a larger establishment on the Place du Forum. Van Gogh wrote many letters to his brother, Theo van Gogh, and often included details of his latest work. The artist wrote his brother more than once about ""The Night Café"". According to Meyer Schapiro, ""there are few works on which [Van Gogh] has written with more conviction."" In one of the letters he describes this painting: The next day (September 9), he wrote Theo: ""In my picture of the ""Night Café"" I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can"
"2 place Lamartine. The rooms were unfurnished and had been uninhabited for months. On 7 May Van Gogh moved from the Hôtel Carrel to the Café de la Gare, having befriended the proprietors, Joseph and Marie Ginoux. The Yellow House had to be furnished before he could fully move in, but he was able to use it as a studio. He wanted a gallery to display his work, and started a series of paintings that eventually included ""Van Gogh's Chair"" (1888), ""Bedroom in Arles"" (1888), ""The Night Café"" (1888), ""Café Terrace at Night"" (September 1888), ""Starry Night Over the Rhone"""
"his picture was the American artist James McNeil Whistler, who created a series of paintings called ""symphonies"" or ""noctures"" of color, including ""Symphony in gray and green; The Ocean"" between 1866 and 1872. The late nineteenth century also brought the systematic study of color theory, and particularly the study of how complementary colors such as red and green reinforced each other when they were placed next to each other. These studies were avidly followed by artists such as Vincent van Gogh. Describing his painting, The ""Night Cafe"", to his brother Theo in 1888, Van Gogh wrote: ""I sought to express"
"beginning his final Symbolist's ""Last Supper"" ""Café Terrace at Night"" Interior of a Restaurant in Arles Interior of a Restaurant in Arles is a colored oil painting executed by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh on an industrially primed canvas of size 25 ""(Toile de 25 figure)"" in Arles, France, late August, 1888. Accurately dating ""Interior of a Restaurant in Arles"" has been difficult, largely because van Gogh never mentioned the painting in any existing letter. Pierre Leprohon placed it in late August, 1888, due in part to the blossoming sunflowers and this has been generally accepted, including by leading"
"In the 19th century, the arrival of the railway diminished river trade, leading to the town becoming something of a backwater. This made it an attractive destination for the painter Vincent van Gogh, who arrived there on 21 February 1888. He was fascinated by the Provençal landscapes, producing over 300 paintings and drawings during his time in Arles. Many of his most famous paintings were completed there, including ""The Night Cafe"", the ""Yellow Room"", ""Starry Night Over the Rhone"", and ""L'Arlésienne"". Paul Gauguin visited van Gogh in Arles. However, van Gogh's mental health deteriorated and he became alarmingly eccentric, culminating"
"The Starry Night The Starry Night is an oil on canvas by the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an idealized village. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. Regarded as among Van Gogh's finest works, ""The Starry Night"" is one of the most recognized paintings in the history of Western culture. In the aftermath of"
"Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Café du Tambourin Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Café du Tambourin was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1887. Agostina Segatori owned the Café du Tambourin that Van Gogh knew intimately. It was a gathering spot for Parisian artists, a place where their work was exhibited. Van Gogh, unable to pay in cash for his meals, exchanged paintings for his fare. The paintings then adorned the restaurant. He held a special exhibit of his Japanese prints in the café as well. His connection with Agostina and the cafe came to a sad end when she"
"Freud, Andrew Wyeth and others served as a kind of alternative to abstract expressionism. ""Nighthawks"" (1942) is a realist painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. It is not only Hopper's most famous painting, but one of the most recognizable in American art. The urban street is empty outside the diner, and inside none of the three patrons is apparently looking or talking to the others but instead is lost in their own thoughts. This portrayal of modern urban life as empty or lonely is a common theme throughout Hopper's work. One"
"were made in the same period, notably the Codex Siniaticus from the Russian National Library, sold in 1933 to the British Museum (after 1973 British Library) for £100,000 raised by public subscription (worth £ in 2019), and ""The Night Café"" by Vincent van Gogh. In the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Parliament of the Russian Federation passed a new law prohibiting the sale of Russian art treasures to foreign countries. For many years the National Gallery was reluctant to lend the paintings it had bought from the Hermitage back to that Museum, for fear that the"
"Luncheon of the Boating Party Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881; ) is a painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Included in the Seventh Impressionist Exhibition in 1882, it was identified as the best painting in the show by three critics. It was purchased from the artist by the dealer-patron Paul Durand-Ruel and bought in 1923 (for $125,000) from his son by industrialist Duncan Phillips, who spent a decade in pursuit of the work. It is now in The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. It shows a richness of form, a fluidity of brush stroke, and a flickering light. The"
"Dancer in a Café Danseuse au café (also known as Dancer in a Café or Au Café Concert and Danseuse) is a large oil painting created in 1912 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956). The work was exhibited in Paris at the Salon d'Automne of 1912, entitled ""Danseuse"". The Cubist contribution to the 1912 Salon d'Automne created a controversy in the Municipal Council of Paris, leading to a debate in the Chambre des Députés about the use of public funds to provide the venue for such 'barbaric' art. The Cubists were defended by the Socialist deputy, Marcel"
"Fair in 1893. Breakfast Time (painting) Breakfast time or Frukostdags is an oil painting completed in 1887 by the Swedish artist Hanna Pauli (1864–1940). It measures and currently belongs to the Nationalmuseum which bought it in 1910. The image shows a dining table standing in a garden. ""Breakfast time"" is one of the museum's most popular images, mentioned as one of the real pearls of the 1800s. The painting ""Breakfast time"" played a major role in Hanna Pauli's breakthrough in the Nordic art scene during the late 1880s. She had recently studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and entered"
"Breakfast Time (painting) Breakfast time or Frukostdags is an oil painting completed in 1887 by the Swedish artist Hanna Pauli (1864–1940). It measures and currently belongs to the Nationalmuseum which bought it in 1910. The image shows a dining table standing in a garden. ""Breakfast time"" is one of the museum's most popular images, mentioned as one of the real pearls of the 1800s. The painting ""Breakfast time"" played a major role in Hanna Pauli's breakthrough in the Nordic art scene during the late 1880s. She had recently studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and entered the Paris Salon"
"of her Café. Segatori's Café du Tambourin was originally located at 27 rue de Richelieu in Paris, before reopening at 62 Boulevard de Clichy; Jules Chéret made a poster for the Cabaret at the reopening. The decor included works offered to her by Edward Dantan, but also featured those by Vincent van Gogh. In 1887, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec created a portrait of Vincent van Gogh at the Café. Agostina was a famous model. In 1860, she posed for Manet, who painted her portrait known as The Italian. This work, now held in a private collection in New York, was sold"
"he next moved. Other painters are mainly of topographical interest. Dudley Hardy (1866–1922) captured an evening effect in a watercolour of 1888, looking from the south side of the Canche and showing the windmills that dominated the town at that period. Nora Cundell (1889-1948) takes us into the back parlour of the Cafe Loos, through the doorway of which one can see a few artist types at table. One English artist who visited the area over many years from 1904 onwards was William Lee Hankey. Eventually he was to have a house built in Le Touquet and maintain a studio"
"study of how complementary colors such as red and green reinforced each other when they were placed next to each other. These studies were avidly followed by artists such as Vincent van Gogh. Describing his painting, The ""Night Cafe"", to his brother Theo in 1888, Van Gogh wrote: ""I sought to express with red and green the terrible human passions. The hall is blood red and pale yellow, with a green billiard table in the center, and four lamps of lemon yellow, with rays of orange and green. Everywhere it is a battle and antithesis of the most different reds"
"paint the stars and I always dream a painting like that with a group of living figures of the pals."" When exhibited for the first time, in 1891, the painting was entitled Coffeehouse, in the evening (""Café, le soir""). 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"
"a cobalt blue sky. He wrote to his brother Theo of ""searching for oppositions of blue with orange, of red with green, of yellow with purple, searching for broken colors and neutral colors to harmonize the brutality of extremes, trying to make the colors intense, and not a harmony of greys."" Describing his painting, ""The Night Café"", to his brother Theo in 1888, Van Gogh wrote: ""I sought to express with red and green the terrible human passions. The hall is blood red and pale yellow, with a green billiard table in the center, and four lamps of lemon yellow,"
"Van Gogh's Chair Van Gogh's Chair is a painting created in 1888 by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It is currently held by the National Gallery, London. The painting shows a rustic wooden chair, with a simple woven straw seat, on a tiled floor. On the chair seat is a decorated pipe and a pouch of pipe tobacco. On 7 May 1888 Van Gogh moved from the Hôtel Carrel to the Café de la Gare, at Arles, in the south of France. He had befriended the proprietors, Joseph and Marie Ginoux. The Yellow House, at 2 place Lamartine, had to"
"occurred at the Florian in 1872 and 1891 when two other rooms where added to the café: la ""Sala degli Uomini Illustri"" (the Hall of the Illustrious Men) and the ""Sala delle Stagioni"" (the Hall of the Seasons). In 1920 another room was added: the Liberty Room. In 1858 the café was completely restored by Lodovico Cadorin because the rooms were not really restored since the 18th century. Cadorin created a great project of redecoration, calling the best artists and artisans available in Venice. The Sala del Senato (Senate Hall) was decorated by Giacomo Casa with the paintings “The Age"
"to the work, claiming that ""the picture is merely a work of art, and has nothing to do with drink or sociology."" L'Absinthe L'Absinthe (English: The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a painting by Edgar Degas, painted between 1875 and 1876. Its original title was Dans un Café, a name often used today. Other early titles were A sketch of a French Café and Figures at Café. Then, when exhibited in London in 1893, the title was changed to ""L'Absinthe"", the name by which the painting is now commonly known. It is in the permanent collection of the"
"Yellow House in Arles furnished to settle there. Evidently until this time, van Gogh's relations to M. and Mme. Ginoux had remained more or less commercial (the café is the subject of ""The Night Café""), but Gauguin's arrival in Arles altered the situation. His courtship charmed the lady, then about 40 years of age, and in the first few days of November 1888 Madame Ginoux agreed to have a portrait session for Gauguin, and his friend van Gogh. Within an hour, Gauguin produced a charcoal drawing while Vincent produced a full-scale painting, ""knocked off in ""one"" hour"". Van Gogh's first"
"the stars and the moon van Gogh employed the rare pigment indian yellow together with zinc yellow. The Starry Night The Starry Night is an oil on canvas by the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an idealized village. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City since 1941, acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. Regarded as among Van Gogh's finest works, ""The Starry Night"""
"Interior of a Restaurant in Arles Interior of a Restaurant in Arles is a colored oil painting executed by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh on an industrially primed canvas of size 25 ""(Toile de 25 figure)"" in Arles, France, late August, 1888. Accurately dating ""Interior of a Restaurant in Arles"" has been difficult, largely because van Gogh never mentioned the painting in any existing letter. Pierre Leprohon placed it in late August, 1888, due in part to the blossoming sunflowers and this has been generally accepted, including by leading 20th century van Gogh scholar Jan Hulsker. It is one"
"comprehensible. At least in the chaos of cubes and trapezoids we find a man. I will say as much for the entry of Mr. Metzinger, Dancers. It has the effect of a puzzle that is not assembled properly"". Dancer in a Café Danseuse au café (also known as Dancer in a Café or Au Café Concert and Danseuse) is a large oil painting created in 1912 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956). The work was exhibited in Paris at the Salon d'Automne of 1912, entitled ""Danseuse"". The Cubist contribution to the 1912 Salon d'Automne created a controversy"
"The History of this painting was described in the article by S. Ivanov, dedicated to the wife of the artist Maria Kleshchar-Samokhvalova (1915-2000) and published in 2015 to her Centenary Anniversary. Cafe Gurzuf Cafe Gurzuf () is a painting by Alexander Nikolayevich Samokhvalov () (1894-1971), well-known Russian painter, watercolorists, graphic artist, illustrator, and art teacher, Honored Arts Worker of the Russian Federation, lived and worked in Leningrad, regarded as one of the founders and brightest representative of the Socialist Realism style. In picture artist has depicted a view of summer cafe in Gurzuf, Crimea, in the middle of the 1950s."