The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of November 10, 2025
Night Café
c. 1923
(French, 1883–1941)
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.)
Location: 223 20th Century Avant-Garde
Did You Know?
The French poet Guillaume Apollinaire urged the artist to change his name to Marcoussis, after a French village south of Paris. The artist was born Louis Casimir Ladislas Markus in Warsaw, Poland, and moved to Paris in 1903.Description
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.- Frederick Clay Barlett Collection, New York (by 1929); Betty Parsons Gallery, New York; Carroll-Knight Gallery, St. Louis; Rev. W. Chave McCracken, Cleveland Heights, Ohio (acquired in 1948); Adelaide McCracken, Bethel Vermont.
- Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY. $850.00
- {{cite web|title=Night Café|url=false|author=Louis Marcoussis|year=c. 1923|access-date=10 November 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2006.139