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Le cirque, fabuleux spectacle

Circus, fantastic show
From april 9 to july 18 2004
Fairground art
Artists have had a fasciantion for the circus and its actors since a fashion that appeared in the middle of the XIXth century,and is manifested through various techniques and artists:Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse, Ibels, Picasso, Rodin,... not to mention the drawings of costumes and the posters.

Musée de la Chartreuse

130, rue des Chartreux
59500 Douai - France

Téléphone 03 27 71 38 80
Fax 03 27 71 38 84
Mail musee@ville-douai.fr
Web http:/ / www.ville-douai.fr
Hours :
Horaire(s) d'ouverturefrom 10 am to 12 pm
and from 2 pm to 6 pm
Tuesday
New Year`s Day, Labour day (May, 1st), Ascension Day ( in May), Bastille Day (July, 14), Assumption Day (August,15), All Saints`Day (November, 1st), Armistice Day 1918 (november, 11), Christmas Day
Admission :
Admission fee : 3 €
Concessions : 1.5 €
Free : 1st Sunday of the month, School children
Jean Dufy, Circus, 1927, Paris, Galerie Jacques Bailly © ADAGP, Paris 2004
MORE INFORMATION :
Publication At the circus, the painter and the acrobat , co-edition by the Chartreuse museum and Somogy art editions, 152 pages, 30€.