*** About Café Terrace at Night: Created during a particularly prolific period of Van Gogh's life, Café Terrace at Night was painted in September 1888. This period was marked by a transition into what many consider his most expressive phase, intensifying his color palette and embracing a more emotive depiction of his surroundings. Inspired by the atmospheric effects of light at night, Van Gogh chose this café setting to explore these notions, turning an ordinary scene into an extraordinary display of color and emotion under artificial lighting—a novel concept at the time. Today, this painting resides in the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands, contributing to its renown as a fine example of Van Gogh's pioneering use of color and a nightly ambiance rarely depicted so vividly at the time.