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Le Chat Noir (sign)

  • Type: Sign

  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Object


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Timeline

Y/M/D Association Description Place Locale Food Event
1881/11/18 Rodolphe Salis opens the "Le Chat Noir" cabaret doors at 84 Boulevard de Rochechouart, at the foot of the Montmartre butte in Paris.
1885/06/10 Adolphe L Willette Artist Rodolphe Salis relocates the "Le Chat Noir" cabaret to 12 rue de Laval (now rue Victor-Masse) in Montmartre. At sometime, Adolphe Willette will design a metal sign for the venue.
1897/04/00 The "Le Chat Noir" cabaret closes after the death of Rodolphe Salis in 1897.
1897/04/00 Adolphe L Willette Artist At the Hotel de ville, Adolphe Willette is awarded first prize for his cut sheet metal signs: "Le Chat Noir", "L'One Rouge" and "Le Noir et le Blanc" at the Concours des ensigns artistiques conceived by the painter Edouard Detaille. Hotel de Ville de Paris Paris

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Particulars for Le Chat Noir (sign):
Art Style Art Nouveau
Art Attribute French Art
Art Type Graphic Art category of fine arts, visual artistic expression through drawings, illustrations, printmaking
Material Iron
Sight Category Object
Object Sign an object that indicates or advertises something else




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