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When Gauguin arrived in Arles, van Gogh insisted they paint outside as often as weather allowed. Cafe Terrace at Night on the Place du Forum (September 1888) is an example of what van Gogh referred to as 'painting in the natural state'. The thick brush strokes of Van Gogh's original in the Rijksmuseum Kroller-Mueller, Otterlo are here recreated with adept flair by modern painters.

Even the highest quality art prints simply cannot compare to the rich colors, texture and character of an actual oil painting. This is 100% hand-painted recreation of the featured artists' original works. No printing or digital imaging techniques are used. Our highly skilled artists paint each painting the old fashioned way -- one at a time.

Each canvas is stretched and gallery wrapped over a 1.5" deep solid wood frame. No additional framing is necessary. Cafe Terrace by Night by Vincent Van Gogh is ready to hang and measures 20"W x 16"H. It is a beauty!

VAN GOGH'S LETTER ABOUT CAFE TERRACE:
"I was only interrupted by my work on a new painting representing the exterior of a night cafe . On the terrace there are small figures of people drinking. An immense yellow lantern illuminates the terrace, the facade, the side walk and even casts light on the paving stones of the road which take a pinkish violet tone. The gables of the houses, like a fading road below a blue sky studded with stars, are dark blue or violet with a green tree. Here you have a night painting without black, with nothing but beautiful blue and violet and green and in this surrounding the illuminated area colours itself sulfur pale yellow and citron green. It amuses me enormously to paint the night right on the spot. Normally, one draws and paints the painting during the daytime after the sketch. But I like to paint the thing immediately.
It is true that in the darkness I can take a blue for a green, a blue lilac for a pink lilac, since it is hard to distinguish the quality of the tone. But it is the only way to get away from our conventional night with poor pale whitish light, while even a simple candle already provides us with the richest of yellows and oranges." -- Letter (in French) (English translation) from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh, Arles, 9 and 16 September 1888.

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