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After Midnight

Arles, September 1888, and New York, 1942: two painters sitting up with the lonely hours after midnight.

Sources: Wikipedia: Vincent van GoghWikipedia: Edward Hopper

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1

In 1888 Van Gogh rented the Yellow House in Arles, in the south of France, and began a series of paintings to decorate it.

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Van Gogh believed colour had psychological and moral weight. That month in Arles he set out to express 'the terrible passions of humanity' in clashing reds and greens.

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Edward Hopper sold his first painting at thirty-one and waited years for the next. He spent the rest of his life in one Greenwich Village apartment, painting loneliness in American cities.

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