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Museum number: 1949,0411.3635
Title: Object: La Clownesse assise (Mademoiselle Cha-U-Ka-O); Series: Elles
Description: 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
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Production date: 1896
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Technique: lithograph; colour
Dimensions: Height: 525 millimetres; Width: 405 millimetres
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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
Bibliographic references: Delteil / Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré (XIXe et XXe siècles) (180); Wittrock 1985 / Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Prints (156); Adriani 1986 / Toulouse-Lautrec, das gesamte Graphische Werk (172)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 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
Subjects: clown; dancer; women/feminism
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Acquisition date: 1949
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1949,0411.3635

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