print
- Museum number
- 1949,0411.3613
- Title
- Object: Jane Avril
- Description
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Female dancer in huge broad-brimmed hat and billowing skirt on stage(?), moving to right. 1893
Brush and spatter lithograph
- Production date
- 1893
- Dimensions
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Height: 265 millimetres
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Width: 212 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Text from 'From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec', BM 1978, cat.92)
One of 11 lithographs by the artist originally included in a portfolio of 22, 'Le Café Concert', with 11 other plates by Henri-Gabriel Ibels, preceded by a 13 page text by Georges Montergueil (Paris, L'Estampe Originale [André Marty], 1893).
The portfolio was produced in both deluxe and regular edition, this impression being one of 500 printed for the regular. The lithographs all show figures from the Parisian music hall.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1978 Mar-Oct, BM, From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec cat. no.92
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
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1949,0411.3613
