Van Gogh painted this all-night café in Arles over three nights in September 1888, sleeping during the day. Gaslight blazes from four lamps above a green billiard table, while a few customers slump at tables along blood-red walls. He wrote that he had tried to express "the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green."
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The landlord, Joseph Ginoux, stands beside the billiard table facing us. The painting's French title, Le Café de nuit, is written beneath the signature at lower right.
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