Les Garçons du Café Royal
Print
1894 (made)
1894 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Print depicting three waiters wearing white aprons and dinner jackets with two cafe tables to the right.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Les Garçons du Café Royal (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Line block print |
| Brief description | Print after an illustration by Aubrey Beardsley, 'Les Garçons du Café Royal', for 'The Yellow Book'. Britain, 1894. |
| Physical description | Print depicting three waiters wearing white aprons and dinner jackets with two cafe tables to the right. |
| Style | |
| Bibliographic reference | Zatlin notes the influence of Felix Vallotton ('whose art Beardsley would have seen in Paris in 1892 and 1893') and that this design was being used on the cover of menus at the Cafe Royal until 1965. 'In July 1966, the [original] drawing appeared in the Journal of the Royal Society of Artists. In that same year, Forte's Restaurant used it as a sign, and it influenced fashion in the 1960s, inspiring the Elite Clothing Company to make a day dress of black and white panels with this as one of the designs. In 1979, the American woodblock artist Barry Moser made an anniversary broadside in the manner of this drawing for Beardsley's Cafe in Northampton, MA'. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.22196 |
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| Record created | August 18, 2015 |
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