Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, print maker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times. Reference: Wikipedia.
Below are some examples and information of prints by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, including a lithograph entitled Divan Japonais and a color lithograph poster used for the 1896 Salon exhibition of international posters.
This lithograph of a woman in a black dress with white collar pouring water from jug into shallow bath in bedroom is from the Portfolio Elles. It was published in 1896
Reference: The British Museum
This lithograph, entitled Divan Japonais was published in 1893. It was sold for GBP 11,875 at Christie’s in 2020
This 1895 color lithograph poster, La Passagere du 54, by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, was used for the 1896 Salon exhibition of international posters.
It was printed by Bourgerie et Cie
This poster sold for $13,750 (including buyer’s premium) at Doyle in 2020
L’Anglais au Moulin Rouge is one of the greatest lithographs Toulouse-Lautrec ever produced, and is one of the rarest. It is 1 of just 100 signed impressions
The contrast between bright, solid coloration and subtle, texture pastels is thrilling, as is the composition – an angular motion of tension and strangeness, but dappled by colors and forms into a charged and harmonious whole. Lautrec is portraying, on the right, William Tom Warrener (1861-1934), an English painter, “who has been a pupil of the Académie Julian and had lived in Paris since the mid-1880s; he was a frequent visitor to the Moulin-Rouge” (Adriani, p. 30).
It was produced in 1892 and was sold at Poster Auctions International in 2018
This is a crayon lithograph printed in olive green on Japan paper with the watermark of Gustave Pellet and Toulouse-Lautrec, from posthumous second edition before 1910; only state
Reference: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
