print;
poster
- Museum number
- 1929,0611.71
- Title
- Object: Divan Japonais
- Description
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A poster for the Parisian cabaret 'Le Divan Japonais', showing dancer Jane Avril in an elegant black dress and critic Edouard Dujardin watching singer Yvette Guilbert. 1893
Colour lithograph in black, orange, yellow and olive green ink
- Production date
- 1893
- Dimensions
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Height: 808 millimetres
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Width: 619 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Text from 'From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec', BM 1978, cat.90)
Jane Avril is in the foreground accompanied by the critic Edouard Dujardin. Yvette Guilbert, who can be recognized by her long black gloves, is singing on the stage. The Divan Japonais in the rue des Martyres was one of the less successful Parisian night spots. This poster was published in January 1893 but before July it had closed. Lautrec's posters were immediately acclaimed by the critics. In La Justice of 15 February 1893, Gustave Geffroy wrote: 'Bruant, La Goulue etplus recemment le Divan Japonais ont pris possession de la rue avec une autorite irresistible. 11 est impossible de ne pas voir l'ampleur des lignes et le sens artistique des belles taches.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1978 Mar-Oct, BM, From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec cat. no.90
1991/2 Oct-Jan, London, Hayward Gallery, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
2007 April-July, BM, P&D, BMP Gift books display
2010 May-Aug, Liverpool, Walker AG, High Kicks and Low Life
2010 Sep-Nov, Middlesborough Inst Modern Art, High Kicks and Low Life
2011 Jan-April, Bedford, Cecil Higgins AG & Mus, High Kicks and Low Life
2011 April-July, Cardiff, NM Wales, High Kicks and Low Life
2020, 20 February – 9 August, London, BM, G90, ‘French Impressions: prints from Manet to Cézanne’ (on display until 23 March 2020 - exhibition closed due to COVID)
- Acquisition date
- 1929
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1929,0611.71
