Lithograph After Henri Toulouse-Lautrec "Jane Avril"
Item Details
A lithograph titled Jane Avril after French Post-Impressionist artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 – 1901). The work is after an original 1893 stone lithograph depicting the performer viewed behind the arm of a musician in the foreground. The work is signed in plate to lower center and marked “93”, and is also marked “Imp Chaix” in plate to the lower left. This print is presented in a metal frame without hanging hardware.
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
- discoloration to paper; tape and residue to the verso.
Dimensions
Item #
18DEN025-060
