Program for L'Echelle (The Scale) and Le Balcon (The Balcony), produced by Le Théâtre de l'Oeuvre

Maker and role
Artist: Alfredo Muller, Italian, 1869-1939
 Year
1898

Object detail

Media/Materials
Lithograph
Measurements
13 3/8 x 10 1/16in (34 x 25.6cm)
Credit line
Gift of the Tobin Foundation for Theatre Arts and Museum purchase
Accession number
TL2005.80
Object type
Prints
Department
Theatre Arts
Location
Not on view
Theatre production
L'Echelle: Play by Gustave van Zype
Le Balcon: Play by Gunnar Heiberg

Produced by Le Théâtre de l'Œuvre, Paris, 1898.
Further information
Norwegian playwright Gunnar Heiberg hoped that his friend Edvard Munch would design the program for The Balcony. Alfredo Muller's image of a couple embracing, however, recalls the Norwegian artist's work.
Documentation
Artistes et théâtres d'avant-garde: programmes de théâtre illustrés, Paris, 1890-1900; Geneviève Aitken, Samuel Josefowitz (b.1921, d.2015); 1991; p. 86, 106; no. 97
Subject period
Post-Impressionist
Modernist
Docent information sheet
V:\Object Documentation\Prints\TL2005.80 Muller\Artistes et Theatres 1991.pdf
Associated person
Théâtre de l'Oeuvre
Maker

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