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Night Café
About the Artwork
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.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Louis Marcoussis (French, 1883–1941)
- Date
- c. 1923
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- 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.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Given in loving memory of W. Chave and Mary Tyler McCracken by their daughters
- Accession no.
- 2006.139
Provenance
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.
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009535
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