Van Gogh painted The Café Terrace
Oil Paintings on the Place du Forum, or Café Terrace at Night, in mid-September of 1888, and it has become one of his most successful works. Following a summer in which he had spent time painting in the fields surrounding Arles, Van Gogh began to experiment with painting en plein air at night. Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night is his first
Van Gogh Paintings painting to explore the starry night background.