Au café concert

Drawing in coloured pencils on paper
23 x 17.5 cm (9.06 x 6.89 in)

Description:
Woman (possibly Yvette Guilbert), facing right, singing on stage. Sihouettes of audience mebers to bottom foreground. Yvette Guilbert was a French cabaret singer and actress of the Belle Époque.

Signature / Inscription:
Signed ‘L. HAYET’ (lower right)

Provenance:
Auction house: Binoche et Giquello, Paris, France, June 19th 2015, Lot 12, ‘Collection Régine et Guy Dulon - Art précolombien et Tableaux modernes, oeuvres de Prinner’ (Régine and Guy Dulon Collection - Pre-Columbian Art and Modern Paintings, Princes Works) – Public exhibition: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, France, sales 1 & 7 (Sold)
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Régine and Guy Dulon Collection, Paris, France

Exhibited:
1991 - Museum Tavet-Museum Pissarro, Pontoise, France, 'Louis Hayet'
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1983 - Museum Tavet-Museum Pissarro, Pontoise, France, 'Louis Hayet', No. 37 of the catalogue

Literature:
Listed under number 85-86 -20-D in the archives of Louis Hayet
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Guy Dulon, Christophe Duvivier, 'Louis Hayet peintre et théoricien du néo-impressionnisme' (Louis Hayet painter and theorist of neo-impressionism), Éditions Ville de Pontoise and the General Council of Val d'Oise, 1991, reproduced page 94