TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, HENRI De (1864-1901)

"Jane Avril - Jardin De Paris" (1893)
authorised lithograph
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*produced by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, c.1930
 
Lautrec was a famous French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the sometimes decadent affairs of those times. Lautrec’s graphic posters—for performers, like Jane Avril, or dance halls, like the Moulin Rouge—embody the ebullient, frenetic spirit of the nightlife in fin-de-siècle Paris. Avril, a lifelong friend of the artist, commissioned this print to advertise her cabaret show at the Jardin de Paris in 1893.