Study for 'Le Chahut'

Copyright

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Maker


1859-1891

Title

Study for 'Le Chahut'

Date of Production

c. 1889

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

Height: 21.8 cm (panel)
Width: 15.8 cm (panel)

Object Number

P.1948.SC.395

Mode of Acquisition

Samuel Courtauld, bequest, 1948

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

On display
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Keywords

Label Text

A troupe of dancers perform the chahut, a high-kicking dance popular in Parisian nightclubs in the late 19th century. Georges Seurat was drawn to scenes of popular entertainment because their staging and artificiality offered fertile ground for exploring the theories of colour and movement central to his work. The red, blue and green palette, as well as the numerous lines and angles flaring upward, functioned, in his eyes, as abstract symbols of gaiety.

The missing painted border on the right indicates that the panel may have been cut down.

Provenance

Samuel Courtauld Bequest 1948

Exhibition History

The Courtauld Collection. A Vision for Impressionism, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris, 20/02/2019-17/06/2019
Seurat. The Master of Pointilism, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands, 23/05/2014-07/09/2014
Seurat and Signac, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 09/10/2008-21/01/2009
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Georges Seurat and the Neo-Impressionism 1885 - 1905, Seiji Togo Memorial Yasuda Kasai Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 26/10/2002-13/12/2002
Georges Seurat and the Neo-Impressionism 1885 - 1905, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, 09/09/2002-20/10/2002
Georges Seurat and the Neo-Impressionism 1885 - 1905, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsonomiya, Japan, 21/07/2002-01/09/2002
Georges Seurat and the Neo-Impressionism 1885 - 1905, Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan, 22/05/2002-14/07/2002
The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 14/06/1998-21/09/1998
The Courtauld Collection, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, 26/12/1997-12/05/1998
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Literature

The Courtauld Collection: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1998

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