1890
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Untitled is a 1890 ink by Louis Abel-Truchet, a Impressionism work, depicting Sheet Music, held at Museum of Modern Art.
You see a black-and-white print of a theater poster: a woman in a feathered hat holds a fan, her face half-hidden in shadow. This isn’t just any ad—it’s from a Paris cabaret called *Cadavres*, where artists and writers performed strange, short plays. The lithograph (a print made from stone) was part of a whole album of these quirky theater programs. Abel-Truchet drew them quickly, but they feel alive, like a snapshot of bohemian Paris. If you like this style, look up the technique: lithography.
Louis Abel-Truchet (29 December 1857 – 9 September 1918) was a French painter and poster artist. He was known for landscapes, genre scenes and depictions of Parisian nightlife.
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