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Enamel Magnet: Van Gogh's Café Terrace

Enamel Magnet: Van Gogh's Café Terrace

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Painted in 1888 while van Gogh was staying in Arles, Café Terrace at Night depicts the Place du Forum. 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.

In a letter to his sister, van Gogh wrote: 

“Now there’s a painting of night without black. With nothing but beautiful blue, violet and green, and in these surroundings the lighted square is colored pale sulphur, lemon green. I enormously enjoy painting on the spot at night. In the past they used to draw, and paint the picture from the drawing in the daytime. But I find that it suits me to paint the thing straightaway.” 

The painting now resides at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands.

 

  • Soft enamel magnet
  • 1¼ inches (3.17 cm) high
  • 6 color design
  • Product type: Magnet
  • Shipping Dimensions: 4.5 × 2.375 × 0.125 inches  (11.4 × 6.0 × 0.3 cm)
  • Shipping Weight: 0.03 lb (0.5 oz; 14 g)
  • SKU010007352 | 717932974285

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