# Night Café

- By: Louis Marcoussis (French, born Poland, 1883–1941)
- Date: c. 1923
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Framed: 87.3 x 105.7 x 7 cm (34 3/8 x 41 5/8 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 70.5 x 88.1 cm (27 3/4 x 34 11/16 in.)
- Culture: France, 20th century
- Credit line: Given in loving memory of W. Chave and Mary Tyler McCracken by their daughters
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.139)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2006.139/2006.139_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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 flag glimpsed out of the window pay homage to the artist’s adopted homeland.