Georgetown Day School – GDS March Madness Auction
Auction Ends: Mar 3, 2013 10:00 PM EST

Art & Photography

Van Gogh Framed Poster Print 14 x 18

Item Number
116
Estimated Value
60 USD
Sold
9 USD to mikebravo
Number of Bids
1  -  Bid History

Item Description

Vincent van Gogh's The Cafe Terrace stands as one of the painter's most remarkable works. It is also, without question, one of the most famous produced in Van Gogh's brief but prolific career. Vincent was enthusiastic about The Cafe Terrace and wrote to his sister Wil: "In point of fact I was interrupted these days by my toiling on a new picture representing the outside of a night cafe. On the terrace there are tiny figures of people drinking. An enormous yellow lantern sheds its light on the terrace, the house and the sidewalk, and even causes a certain brightness on the pavement of the street, which takes a pinkish violet tone. The gable-topped fronts of the houses in a street stretching away under a blue sky spangled with stars are dark blue or violet and there is a green tree. Here you have a night picture without any black in it, done with nothing but beautiful blue and violet and green, and in these surroundings the lighted square acquires a pale sulphur and greenish citron-yellow colour. It amuses me enormously to paint the night right on the spot. They used to draw and paint the picture in the daytime after the rough sketch. But I find satisfaction in painting things immediately."

Enjoy this 14 x 18 framed poster print of Van Gogh's The Cafe Terrace.

Donated By:

Rasha Ebeid & Khaled Sakr