Armed with Peter Mayle's 1989 best-seller A Yr in Provence, my husband and I spent a romantic week in Provence in 1994. Newly love-smitten, we
Armed with Peter Mayle’s 1989 best-seller A Yr in Provence, my husband and I spent a romantic week in Provence in 1994. Newly love-smitten, we stayed in a quaint lodge overlooking the Rhône, having fun with breakfasts on our balcony by the river and strolling starry-eyed into the Place du Discussion board for dinner on the iconic Le Café La Nuit, the topic of Vincent Van Gogh’s 1888 portray “Café Terrace at Night time.”
Vincent Van Gogh painted “Café Terrace at Night time” in Arles, France.
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Not solely does that café nonetheless stand, but it surely’s nonetheless immediately recognizable.
The well-known cafe depicted in Van Gogh’s “Café Terrace at Night time.”
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From 1888 to 1889, the now-famous Dutch Publish-Impressionist painter lived in Arles, France the place he produced over 300 work and drawings. They embrace “Café Terrace at Night time” and “Starry Night time over the Rhône” in addition to his Langlois Bridge collection, Bed room in Arles collection and the second of his Sunflower work collection.
Considered one of a number of oil work in Van Gogh’s Langlois Bridge at Arles collection.
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After falling out along with his good friend and fellow artist Paul Gauguin, who was staying with him on the time — and infamously reducing off one in every of his personal ears — Van Gogh died within the close by…