Why it matters
On a café terrace, a white-faced clown smoking a cigarette sits with an artist and a soldier, while a heavily made-up woman stands behind them and a bourgeois couple looks on. Hopper was inspired by Courbet's The Painter's Studio.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1914.
- Hopper saw Courbet's painting at the Salon d'Automne in 1906.
- Josephine Hopper gave it to the Whitney Museum.
Based on the French Wikipedia article Soir bleu (CC BY-SA 4.0).
