He wanted to "paint the night right on the spot"
Said Van Gogh to his sister in a letter from Arles, 9 and 16 September 1888.
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The painting is of a real French cafe, now renamed Cafe Van Gogh. The cafe is in the city of Arles, France. This painting is the first showing a "starry night." The second is a painting showing the night sky over the Rhone River Bridge, also in Arles. The third, and most famous "Starry Night," now in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, was painted in St. Remy, France when Van Gogh was in the sanitarium there.
Nighthawks. It was painted by the American painter Edward Hooper
starry night was painted in 1889-by van gogh
The Starry Night was painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1889.