During his brief artistic career, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec captured the lively and often sordid atmosphere of Montmartre’s late 19th-century dance halls, cabarets, and theaters. Recording the performances he viewed and the establishments he visited on a nightly basis, he functioned as artist and narrator: original Lautrec paintings, drawings, prints, and posters expose the complexities of the quickly changing age in which he lived.
Between 1890 and 1900, Paris saw tremendous growth in its nightlife scene, with nearly 300 café-concerts serving women and men who drank, smoked, and fraternized in ways previously unpermitted to them in public. In such prominent clubs as the Moulin Rouge and less reputable institutions like the Moulin de la Galette, aristocrats often rubbed shoulders with the working class. It was within these establishments that Lautrec found the subjects he would voraciously document over the next decade.
Lautrec chronicled his era largely through printmaking — something few other artists had attempted to do in this medium. From 1891 until his death in 1901, he produced nearly 350 lithographic posters, editioned portfolios, and illustrations for journals and theater programs recounting life in Belle Époque Paris. The rise of color lithography in 1891 ushered in a new form of printmaking, and Lautrec found great success in this medium. This process allowed him to print large posters in color.
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(Biography provided by Allinson Gallery, Inc.)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "L'Artisan Moderne" Lithograph
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in New York, NY
A rare and well-sought variant of the celebrated poster "L'Artisan Moderne," by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, this special lithograph includes a seldom seen addition of the text reading...
Giltwood, Paper
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "May Milton" Lithograph
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in New York, NY
Executed with a Degas-like sight-line and with a clear influence of the Japanese woodblock prints that so fascinated him, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec created this incredible lithograph, composed of deep contrasts at the behest of the performer whose name appears on the print, "May Milton...
Paper
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "La Tige, Moulin Rouge" Lithograph
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in New York, NY
A French Art Nouveau lithograph "La Tige, Moulin Rouge" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The work, as with many of Lautrec’s crayon lithographs, is imbued with a spirit of tongue and ch...
Gesso, Paper
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "Jane Avril" Lithograph
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in New York, NY
Aptly titled "Jane Avril," celebrated lithograph artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec captures here, in static form, the very particular brand of motion Avril f...
Giltwood, Paper
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "Le Jockey" Lithograph
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in New York, NY
"In Paris from the autumn of 1899 to the summer of 1900, [Lautrec] seemed to live his former existence, making paintings and prints and maintaining contact with friends... In some wa...
Gesso, Giltwood, Paper
Alphonse Mucha "La Dame aux Camelias" Lithograph
By Alphonse Mucha
Located in New York, NY
In the iconic 1896 revival of La Dame aux Camélias, Sarah Bernhardt portrayed the dying courtesan Marguerite Gautier, clad in a flowing white dressing gown. She wraps a bed sheet aro...
Paper
Toulouse Lautrec Divan Japonais Silkscreen Print
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage silkscreen print by Toulouse Lautrec, "Divan Japonais" circa 1960s framed without glass nice paper condition not faded.
Paper
Les Maîtres de l'Affiche - #82 Toulouse-Lautrec - La Revue Blanche, 1897
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Dekalb, IL
Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901) Date: 1897 Medium: Color lithograph on wove paper, with Les Maîtres de l'Affiche embossed medallion (lower right) Style/Movement...
Paper
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "La Revue Blanche" limited edition lithograph
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Limited edition lithograph on Arches paper from edition of 2,000 of "La Revue Blanche" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Reproduction reissued in 1974. Th...
Paper, Lithograph
LA REVUE BLANCHE Maitres de l'Affiche Original Vintage Poster LAUTREC Plate 82
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Chicago, IL
LA REVUE BLANCHE - MAITRES DE L'AFFICHE - PLATE 82 Rare authentic original vintage French art nouveau poster Artist: Henri de Toulouse-Lautr...
Paper
1896 Original Lithograph by Toulouse-Lautrec Catalogue d'Affiches Artistiques
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in PARIS, FR
Created in 1896 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, this original lithograph was designed for the Catalogue d’Affiches Artistiques published by A. Arnould, one of the leading Parisian deal...
Paper, Lithograph
"Elles" lithograph poster
By (After) Henri Toulouse Lautrec
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the poster). Printed in Paris in 1950 by Mourlot Freres, this lithograph faithfully reproduces the original Toulouse-Lautrec poster in a smaller-size format...
Lithograph
