#le chat noir
An invitation card depicting “Le Chat Blanc” (white cat). It echoes Théophile Steinlen’s 1896 poster advertising the “Chat Noir” tour. It’s part of the estate of French writer Paul Jeanne. Paul Jeanne often spent time in Rodolphe Salis’s “Le Chat Noir”, a famous cabaret located in Montmartre, the bohemian distict of Paris.
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Tonight I find myself in my childhood room, surrounded by the art and culture my younger self so purposefully and piously curated. I am looking up to a Le Chat Noir poster my friend brought me back from her trip to Paris (my own trip would not follow for another few years) and I am reminded of the creativity and determination I used to have. I am striving to reclaim this image of myself and hope I will soon author this authentic ideal I so desperately want to exist.
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Tournée du Chat Noir
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen
color lithograph on paper, 1896
Here is another themed piece which I was asked to submit to — the theme on this one was ‘Windows and cats’, in which I pay homage to authors/artists who have created some famous graphic felines, as well as homage to Ted,The Catman, who simply moved in with us one day. How many of the cats can you recognize?
PS - I have completely forgotten one of the fifteen cats I drew thirteen years ago!
digital drawing
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