Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 🇫🇷 (1864-1901) is the image of the revival and decadence that blows on the Belle Époque.
Painter of the nightlife of Montmartre, but also of the promiscuity of brothels. He was also an illustrator and poster artist for the world of cabarets and concert halls.
He is classified as a post-impressionist, like Gauguin and Van Gogh.
Aristide Bruant, then at the height of his career, was invited to the Ambassadeurs, one of the concert cafés on the Champs-Elysées.
He captured the massive silhouette of the chansonnier in three-quarter view, standing out against a brightly colored background, wearing his wide-brimmed hat and his emblematic attributes, the red scarf and the stick that serves as his cane.
If Bruant was enthusiastic about his effigies, he had to threaten his director, in order to have the poster of the "Ambassadors" admitted, not to perform if two posters were not put up on each side of the stage, and if Paris was not covered with them.
In the course of his career he will realize thirty posters, all totally avant-garde and immediately recognizable.
They are an absolute reference for graphic designers around the world.
The genius of Toulouse-Lautrec will always be unique and his posters will probably never be equaled.
Show - Music - France
From the Revue Chansonniers de Montmartre
Very good condition
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