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  2. The Circus (Seurat) - Wikipedia

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    185 cm × 152 cm (72.8 in × 59.8 in) Location. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Website. Museum page. The Circus (French: Le Cirque) is an oil on canvas painting by Georges Seurat. It was his last painting, made in a Neo-Impressionist style in 1890–91, and remained unfinished at his death in March 1891. The painting is located at the Musée d'Orsay in ...

  3. Parade de cirque - Wikipedia

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    Parade de cirque (English: Circus Sideshow) is an 1887-88 Neo-Impressionist painting by Georges Seurat. It was first exhibited at the 1888 Salon de la Société des Artistes Indépendants (titled Parade de cirque, cat. no. 614) in Paris, where it became one of Seurat's least admired works. Parade de cirque represents the sideshow (or parade) of ...

  4. Le Grand Cirque (1956 painting) - Wikipedia

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    At least until 1974 Le Grand Cirque was in a property of Gustave Stern Foundation, New York. [5] In 2007 the painting was acquired from the Gustave Stern Foundation and Sold at Sotheby’s, New York for $13.8 million, becoming a part of private collection in Switzerland. [6] In 2017, the painting was sold for $16 million, to an Asian telephone ...

  5. Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando - Wikipedia

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    Art historian Marilyn R. Brown argued that these changes could be a reflection of Degas's anxiety about his own racial identity. [4] There is also a debate about whether Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando is a portrait of Miss La La or a genre painting of the circus. Miss La La is the only figure shown in this painting.

  6. Cirque - Wikipedia

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    A cirque (French: [siʁk]; from the Latin word circus) is an amphitheatre -like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic: coire, meaning a pot or cauldron) [1] and cwm (Welsh for 'valley'; pronounced [kʊm]). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform arising from fluvial erosion.

  7. Roman circus - Wikipedia

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    Floorplan of Circus Maximus. This design is typical of Roman circuses. The performance space of the Roman circus was normally, despite its name, an oblong rectangle of two linear sections of race track, separated by a median strip running along the length of about two thirds the track, joined at one end with a semicircular section and at the other end with an undivided section of track closed ...

  8. Le Grand Cirque (1968 painting) - Wikipedia

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    Description. On this painting, Chagall focuses on the ring or center stage as a mythical winged figures looks down upon the spectacle from on high. [ 1] The subject of circus was dear to the artist. [ 2] Chagall often returned to the circus as a subject matter in his artworks. [ 3] He considered clowns, acrobats and actors as tragically human ...

  9. Cirque Calder - Wikipedia

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    Cirque Calder. Cirque Calder is an artistic rendering of a circus created by the American artist Alexander Calder. It involves wire models rigged to perform the various functions of the circus performers they represent, from contortionists to sword eaters to lion tamers. The models are composed of diverse materials, most notably wire and wood.