Louis Marcoussis, Night Café
Chave and Mary Tyler McCracken by their daughters, 2006.139 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Louis Marcoussis

Night Café

c. 1923

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
70.5 × 88.1 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-109894

Following Cubist principles, this painting depicts a table from multiple perspectives, providing different views of various objects simultaneously. Louis Casimir Ladislas Markus was born in Warsaw, Poland, into a Jewish family that had converted to Catholicism. In 1903, he moved to Paris where he met poet Guillaume Apollinaire and artists Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. He then began experimenting with Cubism. Also of Polish descent, Apollinaire had changed his own name and urged the artist to change his name to Marcoussis after a French village. The yellow hot air balloon and the French fl…

Provenance

Chave and Mary Tyler McCracken by their daughters, 2006.139

Registry history

  • c. 1923 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art

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