Artists in the late 1800s found opportunities to present their work to the masses through advertising art that began to appear as billboards and posters, plastering the streets of Paris. “Affiche Artistique” was the term that the French used to describe a poster that contained artistic expression. The art was so impressive to the public, people began to collect the posters as soon as they went up, which is why they are so scarce today.
Artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Chéret, Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen, and Alfred Choubrac, contributed to the creative body of work that became what some called “a free museum for the masses”. The craze for collecting these examples of modern art was even given the name, "affichomanie", meaning “artistic poster mania”. Collectors today pay hundreds, if not thousands for original prints of these rare posters.
This is part 9, the final part of a 9-part series on art of the Belle Epoque. For more works in the series see parts 1 - 8 also.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautec (1864 - 1901)
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker and illustrator whose immersion into the colourful and theatrical life of Paris during the Belle Époque allowed him to produce elegant and evocative, and sometimes decadent images. He spent much time in the Parisian brothels, where he was accepted and would sometimes live, recording the colourful life therein.
An alcoholic for most of his adult life, he was placed in a santorium shortly before his death at the age of 36. He died of complications due to alcoholism and syphilis at the family estate in Malrome, France.
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| 1892 At the Moulin Rouge, La Goulue with Her Sister by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec 45.8 x 34.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1892 La Goulue Arriving at the Moulin Rouge with Two Women by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec oil on cardboard Museum of Modern Art, New York City |
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| 1891 Moulin Rouge, La Goulue by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec lithograph 191 x 117 cm |
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| La Goulue |
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| 1891-92c Jane Avril Dancing by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec oil on cardboard 86.5 x 65 cm Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Paris |
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| 1892 Jane Avril Dancing by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec oil on cardboard 85.5 x 45 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris |
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| 1893 Jane Avril, Jardin de Paris poster by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec |
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| Jane Avril |
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| 1893 Divan Japonais, Jane Avril, Jardin de Paris by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec outline and watercolour test poster |
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| 1893 Divan Japonais, Jane Avril, Jardin de Paris by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec |
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| 1899 Jane Avril by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec |
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| Jane Avril |
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| 1892 Ambassadeurs Paris, Aristide Bruant poster by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec |
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| 1892 Ambassadeurs Paris, Aristide Bruant poster by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec |
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| 1893 Aristide Bruant dans son cabaret poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1893 Bruant au Mirliton poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| Eldorado, Aristide Bruant dans son cabaret poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| Aristide Bruant |
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| 1892 Reine de Joie test poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1892 Reine de Joie poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1892 The Englishman at the Moulin Rouge lithograph by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec 90 x 64 cm Private Collection |
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| 1892-95 At the Moulin Rouge by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec oil on canvas 123 x 141 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1893 Cadieux poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1893 Le Matin poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1893 Le Missionnaire programme by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec |
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| 1893 Le Missionnaire programme by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec |
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| 1893 La Loïe Fuller by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec brush and spatter lithograph in five colours 38 x 25.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City |
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| 1893 La Loïe Fuller by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec oil on board 63.2 x 45.3 cm |
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| La Loïe Fuller by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| La Loïe Fuller |
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| 1893 Nicolle lithograph by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1894 Babylone d'Allemagne stage 1 poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1894 Babylone d'Allemagne stage 2 poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1895 Bust of Miss Marcelle Lender stage 1 lithograph 30.5 x 25.4 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1895 Bust of Miss Marcelle Lender stage 2 lithograph 30.5 x 25.4 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| Marcelle Lender |
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| 1895 La Dépêche, Le Tocsin poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1895 May Belfort poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1895 May Milton poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1895 The Chap Book (Irish and American Bar) by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (test proof) |
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| 1895 The Chap Book (Irish and American Bar) by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec |
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| 1896 Extra in the Folies Bergère Revue by Henri de Touluse-Lautrec oil on cardboard |
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| 1896 l'Artisan Moderne poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1896 La Chaîne Simpson poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1896 La Vache Enragée poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1896 Own exhibition poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1896 P. Sescau, Photographe poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1896 Salon des Cent poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1896 Troupe de Mlle Elegantine stage 1 poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1896 Troupe de Mlle Elegantine poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
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| 1896c Mrs. Lona Barrison avec son Manager et Époux by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec lithograph 26.7 x 12.2 cm Brooklyn Museum, NY |
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| 1900 Au Bal des Etudiants poster by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec |
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| In the Moulin Rouge by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec pastel on cardboard 56.4 x 42 cm Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest |
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