Title

Chat Noir [inscribed, true, fr]
Poster of a Black Cat, for the Reopening of the Chat Noir Cabaret [descriptive, false, en]

Description

[This poster is offset lithography, but mass-produced and commercially printed.] Steinlen's poster advertises the reopening of a cabaret, the Chat Noir in Montmartre. Here the artist worked with several actors to present avant-garde shadow theater, which investigated the artistic and dramatic effects of silhouettes, starring R. Salis as the popular, improvisational narrator ("bonimenteur") of each shadow performance.
CCO (Cataloging Cultural Objects) Catalog Examples; http://www.vrafoundation.org/ccoweb/cco/examplesindex.html (accessed 5/31/2009) [description source]

Main caption: Prochainement la très illustre Compagnie du Chat Noir avec ses Pièces d'Ombres Célèbres, ses Poëtes ses Compositeurs Avec Rodolphe Salis. Steinlen logo on bottom left. On right side: Imp. Charles Verneau, 114, Rue Oberkampf, Paris

Identifier

dnajerac

Relation

http://www.core.vraweb.org/examples/html/example025_full.html

Type

Image

information forms; posters

Creator

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss artist, 1859-1923)

Format

ink on paper

Language

French

Extent

61.6 cm (height) x 39.62 cm (width)

Subject

Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, California, United States) 1991.17 [repository creation]
Printer/publisher: Charles Verneau, 114, Rue Oberkampf, Paris [location note]

Art Nouveau; Nineteenth century

animals; commercial and industrial design; typography or calligraphy; Chat noir (Cabaret : Paris, France); Salis, Rodolphe, 1851-1897; graphic design; commercial arts; advertising; cabaret entertainment; avant garde; cats; fin-de-siecle

Date Created

1896 (creation)

Source

Core 4 Sample Database (VCat)

Medium

offset printing