- Museum number
- 1949,0411.3635
- Title
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Object: La Clownesse assise (Mademoiselle Cha-U-Ka-O)
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Series: Elles
- Description
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Clowness seated on red cushioned bench (in Moulin Rouge?), wearing yellow collar and black stockings, her elbows resting on her legs; from a series of ten lithographs. 1896
Colour crayon, brush and spatter lithograph with scraper, printed in green-black, black-brown, yellow, red and blue ink
- Production date
- 1896
- Dimensions
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Height: 525 millimetres
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Width: 405 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From the series 'Elles', a set of ten lithographs with lithographic cover and frontispiece (Paris: Gustave Pellet, 1896); published in an edition of 100 impressions.
(Text from 'From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec', BM 1978, cat.122)
The subject is a dancer employed at the Moulin Rouge. Her name was an orientalised version of 'Chahut-Chaos', the name given to a dance.
For comment see 1949,0411.3634
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1978 Mar-Oct, BM, From Manet to Toulouse-Lautrec cat. no.122
1991/2 Oct-Jan, London, Hayward Gallery, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
1996 Apr-Jun, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Landmarks in Print Collecting
1996 Jul-Sep, LA, Huntington Library and AG, Landmarks in Print Collecting
1996, Oct-Dec, Baltimore, Museum of Arts, Landmarks in Print Collecting
1997 Jan-Apr, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Landmarks in Print Collecting
2002 June-Sep, London, National Gallery, Fabric of Vision
2003/4 Sep-Jan, Tarragona, Sala Tarragona, Masters/Printmaking from BM
2004 Feb-April, Palma, Fundacio 'la Caixa', Masters/Printmaking from BM
2004 April-July, Lleida, Fundacio 'la Caixa', Masters/Printmaking from BM
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
- 1949,0411.3635