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| Artist: Toulouse-Lautrec
French (1864-1901) | |
Item: MD1
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Title: Le Missionaire:
Le Logue au Mascaron Dore
(The box with the gilded mask)
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Description: Condition
A.
Original lithograph plate from the
"Les Programmes Illustrees" series,
Published by Ernest Maindron,
printed by Imprimerie Eugene Verneau,
Paris, 1897.
Presented in 16 x 20 in. acid free, archival museum mat, with framing
labels. Ready to frame. Shipped boxed flat.
Certificate of Authenticity.
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| Sheet Size: |
9 5/8 in x 12 5/8 in |
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24.5 cm x 32 cm |
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Price:
$1800.00 USD Now $1450
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"For Lautrec the theater was to be found in the boxes as much
as on the stage. One of his best-known inventions (The Box with the
Gilded Mask) was a program for Marcel Luguet's play Le Missionaire
(The Missionary), which had its premiere at the Theatre Libre on 24
April 1894. This was the last program he designed for this theater
before its closing in 1896. With its economical use of color, this
is one of Lautrec's greatest achievements in the field of small-scale
color lithography. This bold composition incorporates the rare treat
of lettering by Lautrec himself, contrary to other examples where
it is added, not always satisfactorily, by another hand.
Jane Avril
Oddly enough, by focusing on the audience in the boxes rather than
the subject of the play, Lautrec was showcasing the exact opposite
of what the owner of the Theatre Libre, Andre Antoine, wanted. Antoine
was the first French director to turn out the house lights and insist
that the audience, instead of watching each other, watch the actors
on the stage illuminated by electric spotlights. In this humorous
nudge toward Antoine, Lautrec displays the profile of the English
illustrator Charles Edward Conder (1868-1909), who had met Lautrec
at the Moulin Rouge, sitting alongside a red-headed woman who strongly
resembles Jane Avril." (Gary Bruder fine Art)
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