Café Terrace at Night

Painted in Arles in mid-September 1888, this nocturnal scene captures a café terrace glowing under a yellow lantern. Van Gogh described it as a "night without black," using vivid blues, violets, greens, and yellows to render the street and sky, while his signature Post-Impressionist brushstrokes add energy and movement. The work is notable as one of his first starry night paintings.

Van Gogh’s family kept the painting after the artist's death in 1890. The French critic Gabriel-Albert Aurier acquired it, after which it passed to S. Williame-Aurier in 1892. In 1914, Helene Kröller-Müller purchased the painting, and it is now in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands.