Design for Tiger Hunting Mural in the Cabaret Theatre Club

Charles Ginner, 1878–1952

1912

Oil and pencil on card

Yale Center for British Art

A stylized mural design depicts a tiger in a jungle setting with monkeys and abstract human figures. The composition is divided into three vertical panels with a grid overlay. A stylized mural design depicts a tiger in a jungle setting with monkeys and abstract human figures. The composition is divided into three vertical panels with a grid overlay. 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