Oil paint on board
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CaféConcert des Ambassadeurs
Presented by Sir Louis Fergusson 1949
adults
audience
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
dance
France
groups
interiors
leisure and pastimes
man
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Paris - non-specific
people
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woman
<p>Fergusson was a leading Scottish modernist. His frequent visits to Paris from the 1890s illustrate the close ties between modern Scottish art and French painting. He was one of a group of painters attracted by the bright colours used by the Fauve group of French artists.Fergusson developed enlarged sketches of café-life like this into finished paintings, which often centred on the figure of a glamorous woman. Dance became important for him as he later became interested in eurhythmics, a system of rhythmical body movements.</p><p><em>Gallery label, July 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint board
8 August 2001 – 21 April 2003
2003-04-21
8 August 2001 – 21 April 2003
2003-04-21
2001-08-08
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2001-08-08
French Influence on British Art
Collection based display
21 June 2003 – 28 August 2007
2007-08-28
21 June 2003 – 28 August 2007
2007-08-28
2003-06-21
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2003-06-21
International Modern Art
Collection based display
Café-Concert des Ambassadeurs
support: 375 × 413 mm
Presented by Sir Louis Fergusson 1949
<p>Fergusson was a leading Scottish modernist. His frequent visits to Paris from the 1890s illustrate the close ties between modern Scottish art and French painting. He was one of a group of painters attracted by the bright colours used by the Fauve group of French artists.Fergusson developed enlarged sketches of café-life like this into finished paintings, which often centred on the figure of a glamorous woman. Dance became important for him as he later became interested in eurhythmics, a system of rhythmical body movements.</p>

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2007-07-10T00:00:00
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<p><b>N05880</b> CAFé CONCERT DES AMBASSADEURS 1907
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<br/>Inscr. on back, ‘J.D. Fergusson 83 rue N.D. des Champs Paris’.
<br/>Oil on millboard, 14 3/4×16 1/4 (37·5×41).
<br/>Presented by Sir Louis Fergusson 1949.
<br/><i>Coll:</i> Purchased by Sir Louis Fergusson from the artist 1918.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Baillie Gallery, November 1908 (catalogue not traced); <i>The Collection of Sir Louis Fergusson, K.C.V.O.</i>, Leicester Galleries, September 1948 (50); Arts Council, R.S.A., November–December 1961, and tour 1961–2 (33).</p>
<p>Painted in 1907 when the artist was living in Paris. The donor (who is no relation to the artist) said that he first admired the picture at the Baillie Gallery and bought it ten years later. (Letters of 25 July 1952 and 14 August 1952.) The Baillie Gallery moved to Bruton Street in 1908 and held an inaugural exhibition containing some sixty works by Fergusson (cf. <i>Art Journal</i>, 1908, p.377).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-22T00:00:00
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adults audience cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents dance France groups interiors leisure and pastimes man music and entertainment Paris - non-specific people places places of entertainment theatre woman