L’Anglais au Moulin-Rouge

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L’Anglais au Moulin-Rouge

Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec French, 1864-1901

Publisher Boussod, Valadon, & Co.

Printer Edward Ancourt Paris

Date1892

DimensionsImage: 18 1/2 × 14 5/8 in. (47 × 37.1 cm)
Sheet: 23 × 17 5/8 in. (58.4 × 44.8 cm)

Mediumcolor lithograph

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineWinthrop H. Perry Fund

Object number

1938.2

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Exhibition HistoryFrench Prints from the TMA, Feb 18 - May 15, 2005 TMA The Painter Was a Printmaker: June 23 - Sept. 9, 1984 TMA Toulouse-Lautrec; Jan 28, 1978 TMA Satire Show: March 17 - June 25 2006 Paris: City of Art, November 6, 2009 - March 14, 2010.Label TextThe prints of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec are important in the story of Modern art. This is one of the strongest and most incisive lithographs that Lautrec produced. As one of the pioneers of the lithography revival of the 1890s, he helped to raise the technique, which had sunk to a commercial level in the late 19th-century, through his innovative compositions, superb drawing skills, and advanced coloration. Lautrec was an observer of Parisian life in music halls, theaters, cafes, brothels, and at the racetrack. He employed an inspired economy of line to portray the expressions and attitudes of the figures. The bright, rich colors and daring simplification of the composition reflect the influence of French expressionist artist Paul Gauguin and of Japanese woodblock prints.