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| Artist: Toulouse-Lautrec
French (1864-1901) | | Item: L.1 |
| Title: L'Argent | Description:
Cond. A, Original lithograph from Les
Menues et Programmes, one of 1000 copies printed.
Published by G. Boudet
in Paris, 1898.
Presented in 16 x 20 in. acid free, archival museum mat, with
framing labels. Ready to frame. Shipped boxed flat via Fedex.
Certificate
of Authenticity.
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| Sheet Size: | 9 in x 12 in |
| | 23 cm x 30.5 cm | |
| Price: $850.00 USD |
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"Un Monsieur et une Dame (A Gentleman and a Lady) was drawn by Lautrec as
a special programme for the Play L'Argent at the Theâtre Libre in 1895.
The figures are the actress Arguillere and the actor Henriot. This is the rarest
of the three colour lithographs that Lautrec made for the Theâtre Libre.
In the use of flat stylized areas of colour and the expressive outline, as well
as the extension of the composition beyond the picture area, it reveals the extend
of the influence of Japanese prints on the early period of Lautrec's lithography.
Like the Nabis artists, Lautrec had been greatly excited by the Japanese Ukiyo-e
prints which had increasingly been exhibited in Paris since the Exposition Universelle.
Here the strong diagonal movement, the daring contrasts of scale, the intersection
of the flat colour and the splatter or chalk-work show the inspiration of Japonisme"
(Weston No.5 1996,45) This version
is from "Les Menus and Programmes," a collection of theatrical menus,
invitations and programmes that included 20 colour plates from Lautrec and other
artists. Printed in 1898 in a limited format of 1000 copies, this is from No.
856. Rare. | |
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