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HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC French 1864-1901

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HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC French 1864-1901
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Watercolor on ink on paper, featuring a salon scene. Signed and attr. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901), signature on lower left corner. 10.4 x 7.7 in. (26.5 x 19.5 cm). Stamped and signed initial on verso. Accompanied with a certificate. Toulouse-Lautrec was the first artist to elevate advertising to the status of a fine art. This is an extraordinary shift in the history of art, obliterating the boundaries between high (painting, drawing, sculpture) and low (posters, logos and other forms of visual culture) art. Acknowledging that some of his greatest masterpieces were posters for nightclubs does not in any way diminish their value.