Café Terrace at Night is an oil on canvas painting by Vincent van Gogh, painted in September 1888 in Arles, France. It shows the illuminated terrace of a café on the Place du Forum at night, with a large yellow lantern lighting the terrace and facade, small figures of people drinking, and a starry sky overhead. The work is unsigned, but its creation is documented through three letters Van Gogh wrote describing it. It measures about 80.7 by 65.3 centimeters and is held at the Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Van Gogh painted Café Terrace at Night in Arles, France, in mid-September 1888. The painting is not signed, but described and mentioned by the artist in three letters.
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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
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