Le Chahut
Georges Seurat · 1889
The story
Le Chahut (English: The Can-can) is a Neo-Impressionist painting by Georges Seurat, dated 1889–90. It was first exhibited at the 1890 Salon de la Société des Artistes Indépendants (titled Chahut, cat. no. 726) in Paris. Chahut became a target of art critics, and was widely discussed among Symbolist critics.
The painting—representing a can-can at the Moulin Rouge—influenced the Fauves, Cubists, Futurists and Orphists.
Formerly in the collection of French Symbolist poet and art critic Gustave Kahn, Chahut is located at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands.
- Artist
- Georges Seurat
- Date
- 1889
- Collection
- Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
- Movement
- Neo-impressionism, pointillism
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 170 × 141 cm
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