Description

Original charcoal drawing by Jules Chéret (1836–1932), portraying a cabaret dancer mid-movement, wearing a voluminous dress and elaborate hat. Cheret lived in Mont Martre in Paris and frequently sold art on the square. This drawing most probably sold there or on the seine.
Signed lower right.
Circa 1900

Jules Cheret did work with coloration and perspective that “caused a revolution, a color revolution” and likely inspired the Fauve painters whose colorful works were first publicly exhibited in 1933, the year after his death. Because of his innovations, “there was fun and fantasy, glimpses of laughter, whirling of dancers decorating the kiosks of Paris, dazzling the senses and creating a movement of gaiety that had not existed before.”

Sight: 15 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. (40 x 24.1 cm.),
Frame: 17 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (44.5 x 28.6 cm.)

Condition: Fresh and Good with a stain on the top right and paint splatters bottom left.