Lithograph After Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "Divan Japonais"
Item Details
A lithograph print on paper titled Divan Japonais after well-listed Impressionist painter and illustrator Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901).This image was commissioned by Édouard Fournier, owner of the Divan Japonais cabaret, to promote its opening, and depicts a darkly glamorous scene inside of the nightclub. In the foreground, the dark shape of famed can-can dancer Jane Avril and her fiery red hair dominate the scene; to her right is art critic and writer Édouard Dujardin. Beyond these two figures are the silhouettes of stringed instruments and the conductor, with the cropped figure of singer Yvette Guilbert, a well-known singer of the time, standing on stage with her signature long, black gloves clasped in front of her. This work is signed in plate to the lower right corner. It is presented behind acrylic glass in a metal frame.
Toulouse-Lautrec was born in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France and moved to Paris in 1882 where he shaped his artistic career by working in the studios of artists he greatly admired. His immersion in the flamboyant and theatrical subculture nightlife of cabaret dancers, bohemians, and prostitutes of turn-of-the-century Paris, particularly at the Moulin Rouge cabaret, allowed him to produce an enticing and provocative body of work accurately representing the modern, sometimes dark, life of those times, earning him rights to becoming known as “the soul of Montmartre.”
Condition
- some scuffing and scratches throughout the acrylic glass, gold tone metal frame showing nicks and scratches around the frame.
Dimensions
- measures frame; measures visual image: 23.25" W x 30.5" H.
Item #
18SWF017-008
