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Posters and late nights

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Mostly prints and drawings rather than oils. Cabaret bills, the Moulin Rouge, singers and dancers caught mid-gesture, and a handful of quieter portraits. Flat colour, a quick line, a lot of bare paper.

As a puzzle

Harder than it looks. A lithograph gives you broad flat areas with nothing inside them, so you work from the edges of shapes and from the lettering instead of from texture. Keep the count low and let it take the evening.

A good size here: 50–200 pieces.

Also filed under Post-Impressionism Art Nouveau

19 pictures, pick one to build

At the Circus: The Spanish Walk (Au Cirque: Le Pas espagnol) 1899 The Englishman (William Tom Warrener, 1861–1934) at the Moulin Rouge 1892 The Streetwalker ca. 1890–91 Woman before a Mirror 1897 Émilie late 1890s Albert (René) Grenier (1858–1925) 1887 Madame Thadée Natanson (Misia Godebska, 1872–1950) at the Theater 1895 Moulin Rouge: La Goulue 1891 Les Rois Mages Henri-Gabriel Ibels (1867–1936) 1892–93 Tristan Bernard 1898, published 1920 Polaire 1895 The Clown: M. Joret 1885 A Saint-Lazare par Aristide Bruant Adolphe (The Sad Young Man) 1894 Aristide Bruant, at His Cabaret 1893 A Woman and a Man on Horseback 1879–81 Sarah Bernhardt 1898 Combing Their Hair 1896