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CHAT NOIR AT MUSEE DE MONTMARTRE


Chat Noir exhibition at Musee des Montmartre.

EXHIBITION AROUND

THE CHAT NOIR

– MUSEUM MONTMARTRE


Arts and Pleasures at Montmartre 1880-1910

  at Musée de Montmartre, Paris

13 September 2012 – January 13, 2013

“The Chat Noir is the most extraordinary cabaret in the world
. It rubs shoulders with the most illustrious men of Paris, met there with foreigners from all parts of the world … This is the biggest hit of the day! Enter! Enter!
 ”

Rodolphe Salis  

Irony, satire and humor!

These are the hallmarks of this exhibition will evoke the atmosphere of literature, art and music of the Black Cat through more than 200 works.

Musee des Montmartre

PARIS: The Museum of Montmartre presents from 13 September to 13 January 2013an exhibition presenting one of the mythical places  at Montmartre, the world wide wellknown cabaret CHAT NOIR. In fact the name is world wide known, but i am not sure how many has actually been visiting it. During the years since the establishment was founded in 1881 other cabarets has been borrowing the Chat Noir name, and Chat Noir is nearly as “term” for this kind of cabaret.

Georges Bottini, the bar - the woman in white - 1904 Watercolor, 37 x 27 cm - Private Collection - © DR

The “CHAT NOIR“, founded in1881 by  Rudolph  Salis at Montmartre is the first cabaret literary, artistic and musical of avantgarde in Paris
. With usual programs
.  The contrary, they constituted a mixture unpredictability of songs and of hucksterism, with the theater shadow as main attraction
.

For the first time, a piano is authorized by the police. The pianists who performed were Paul Delmet and Albert Trinchant. Erik Satie, Claude Debussy and Gustave Carpentier who also composed their music
.

The exhibition presents more than 200 works  Henry Toulouse-Lautrec, Edward Vuillard, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Adolphe Willette, the Nabis and the “Symbolists, and a reconstitution of the theater Shadows and the accompaniments musicians (Sparrow, Yvette Guilbert).
Without forgetting the entertainment and the bohemian artistic Montmartre represented by the Circus Fernando, Moulin Rouge and the Bal Tabarin.


Irony, satire and humor. These are masters words of this exposition.

 

Pierre Vidal, couverture Pour la vie à Montmartre,

This is first event to mark the rebirth of the museum of Montmartre by the association Kléber Rossillon with the will and wish to register it now in the network of outstanding museums in Paris. A good initiative, and we ae sure that it will be populare among the visitors to Paris.

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