Design for Tiger Hunting Mural in the Cabaret Theatre Club
Date:
1912
Materials & Techniques:
Oil and pencil on card
Dimensions:
13 1/2 x 22 5/8 inches (34.3 x 57.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1985.3.2
Gallery Label:
This study was created as part of Charles Ginner’s preparations to paint a large mural in London’s Cabaret Theatre Club, a nightclub that contained arguably the most striking scheme of avant-garde art in Edwardian London. Ginner had both studied art in Paris and worked in an architect’s office, so he had a good understanding of the particular requirements of mural painting. The addition of monkeys to the side panels was perhaps inspired by the pet monkeys that the club’s owner, Frida Strindberg, kept in her suite at the Savoy Hotel. The murals, painted on canvas and applied to the wall, are now lost (rumored to have been taken to the United States when Strindberg left London for New York), and this study is the only surviving evidence of Ginner’s scheme. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016