Винсент Ван Гог - Ночное кафе на площади Ламартин в Арле 1888

Entrance to the Public Park in Arles 1888 The Green Vineyard 1888 A Lane in the Public Garden at Arles 1888 The Night Café in the Place Lamartine in Arles 1888 The Night Cafe in Arles 1888 The Old Mill 1888 Ploughed Field 1888
Винсент Ван Гог - Ночное кафе на площади Ламартин в Арле 1888

Ночное кафе на площади Ламартин в Арле 1888
70x89см холст/масло
New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery

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From Yale University Art Gallery:
In a letter to his brother written from Arles in the south of France, van Gogh described the Café de l’Alcazar, where he took his meals, as “blood red and dull yellow with a green billiard table in the center, four lemon yellow lamps with an orange and green glow. Everywhere there is a clash and contrast of the most disparate reds and greens.” The clashing colors were also meant to express the “terrible passions of humanity” found in this all-night haunt, populated by vagrants and prostitutes. Van Gogh also felt that colors took on an intriguing quality at night, especially by gaslight: in this painting, he wanted to show how “the white clothing of the café owner, keeping watch in a corner of this furnace, becomes lemon yellow, pale and luminous green.”