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Louis Marcoussis

Night Café

c. 1923
oil on canvas
70.5 × 88.1 cm (27.8 × 34.7 in)

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● On view now — 223 20th Century Avant-Garde

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · verified July 2026

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

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.

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