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''The Night Café'' ((フランス語:Le Café de nuit)) is an oil painting created by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in September 1888 in Arles. Its title is inscribed lower right beneath the signature. The interior depicted is the ''Café de la Gare'', 30 Place Lamartine, run by Joseph-Michel Ginoux and his wife Marie, who in November 1888 posed for Van Gogh's and Gauguin's ''Arlésienne''; a bit later, Joseph Ginoux evidently posed for both artists, too. ==Description== The painting was executed on industrial primed canvas of size 30 (French standard). It depicts the interior of the cafe, with a half-curtained doorway in the center background leading, presumably, to more private quarters. Five customers 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. 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."〔Harris, Nathaniel: ''The Masterworks of Van Gogh'', pp 167-168. Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom: Colour Library Direct, 1999.〕 One scholar wrote, "The cafe was an all-night haunt of local down-and-outs and prostitutes, who are depicted slouched at tables and drinking together at the far end of the room.".〔Shestack, Alan, editor, ''Yale University Art Gallery Selections'', "Vincent van Gogh", pp 68-69, by Antonia Lant ("AL"). New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery〕 In wildly contrasting, vivid colours, the ceiling is green, the upper walls red, the glowing, gas ceiling lamps and floor largely yellow. The paint is applied thickly, with many of the lines of the room leading toward the door in the back. The perspective looks somewhat downward toward the floor.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Night Café」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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