In one of the letters he describes this painting:
The artist wrote his brother more than once about The Night Café. Van Gogh wrote many letters to his brother Theo van Gogh, and often included details of his latest work. It depicts a different cafe, a larger establishment on the Van Gogh's Cafe Terrace at Night, showing outdoor tables, a street scene and the night sky, was painted in Arles at about the same time. Prowlers can take refuge there when they have no money to pay for a lodging, or are too drunk to be taken in.” It is what they call here a cafe de nuit (they are fairly frequent here), staying open all night. Today I am probably going to begin on the interior of the cafe where I have a room, by gas light, in the evening.
In August 1888 the artist told his brother in a letter: In a jocular passage of a letter Van Gogh wrote his brother, Theo, the artist said Ginoux had taken so much of his money that he'd told the cafe owner it was time to take his revenge by painting the place. The perspective looks somewhat downward toward the floor. The paint is applied thickly, with many of the lines of the room leading toward the door In wildly contrasting, vivid colours, the ceiling is green, the upper walls red, the glowing, gas ceiling lamps and floor largely yellow. The five customers depicted in the scene have been described as "three drunks and derelicts in a large public room huddled down in sleep or stupor."One scholar wrote, "The cafe was an all-night haunt of local down-and-outsĪnd prostitutes, who are depicted slouched at tables and drinking together at the far end of the room." FiveĬustomers sit at tables along the walls to the left and right, and a waiter in a light coat, to one side of a billiard table near the center of the room, stands facing the viewer. It depicts the interior of the cafe, with a half-curtained doorway in the center background leading, presumably, to more private quarters. The painting was executed on industrial primed canvas of size 30 (French standard).
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