Although we know Van Gogh so well from his 36 painted self-portraits, depictions of him by other artists are rare. We can now add another—from no less a hand than his friend Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, ...
If you were a Parisian in the 1890s then you would have noticed large street posters whose evocative images of stars enticed you to visit the nightclubs of Montmartre. Through this bold new form of ...
Montmartre, Moulin Rouge, Folies Bergère, absinthe, the can-can, Chat Noir, the fin-de-siècle (end of the century) devil may care, bohemian, sexy, sleep all day, party all night Paris of our ...
Showgirls in fishnet stockings and ruffled skirts kicking their legs to the sky flanked by musicians strumming their instruments. This is just some of the imagery captured in the artwork of French ...
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The 150 prints and drawings featured in the Allentown Art Museum’s summer exhibition, “Toulouse Lautrec and His World,” show that the little man from Paris was a master of the accouterment. Henri de ...
No offense to your college dorm room, but it’s got nothing on the walls of the Museum of Fine Art’s Gund Gallery. All spring and summer long, they’re playing host to a retrospective of French painter ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Toulouse-Lautrec’s work is so ubiquitous it’s sometimes difficult to see. You might meet La Goulue or Jane Avril at a ...
BOSTON - Moulin Rouge! Moulin Rouge! Moulin Rouge! Painted in bright red, capital letters, there’s nothing subtle about the message on the advertising poster from 1891. We see loud and clear what the ...
Picture late 19th century Paris and a cat poster might come to mind, advertising a product that many will forget. After all, the image’s style is the important thing: clean lines, black ink. People ...