How does The Night Café elucidate its Gauguin's competition piece?
Soon after his arrival in Arles, Paul Gauguin painted the same location, as a background to his portrait of Madame Ginoux. While the Van Gogh painting depicts the café as a room of isolation, Gauguin's Night Café at Arles mixes the concepts of isolation (to the painting's left) and spirited socializing (in the center), behind Madame Ginoux.It was also acquired by Ivan Morozov and now hangs in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.
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