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Application du Cercle Chromatique de Mr. Charles Henry, Program of the 5th Night at the Théâtre Libre, Thursday 31st January 1889
1888
2015.68
Not currently on view
Artwork Details
6-3/8 x 7-3/8 in.
Mark DescriptionSigned, l.r.: P. Signac Inscribed, black typed ink, l.l.: Application du Cercle Chromatique de Mr. Ch. Henry. Inscribed, black typed ink, l.l. bottom margin: Lith. EUGENE VERNEAU, 108, Rue de la Folie Mericourt, paris.
Accession NumberBequest of Kathryne S. Block in Memory of Rudolph C. Block by exchange
Copyright(Eric Gillis Fine Art, Brussels, Belgium); Purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2015.
- Used as a program illustration for the avant-garde Paris theater, Théâtre-Libre (or T-L), this print presents the head and shoulders of a rotund spectator, seated facing a lighted stage.
- Charles Henry was one of the theorists who influenced the Neo-Impressionists’ methods, and Signac originally used this design to advertise Henry’s book on color. The sequence of colors flowing through the “T” follows the order of Henry’s chromatic circle. (See the color wheel on the table in this gallery.)
- Demonstrating the Neo-Impressionists’ juxtaposition of complementary colors (as in the purple of the man’s head next to the yellow footlights), this is arguably the movement’s most significant print.
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