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Vintage TOULOUSE-LAUTREC Litho Print ELLES

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Vintage TOULOUSE-LAUTREC Litho Print ELLES
This is a vintage lithograph print from the set printed in 1951 by Mourlot Freres of Paris. Original poster artwork by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Printed on superb quality paper; colors are bright and crisp. SIZE: Approx. 9 1/2" x 12 1/2". This is the poster advertising the publication of Lautrec's series Elles (consisting of ten sheets with a frontispiece and a cover), one of the high-points of nineteenth-century art. It was the pictorial epilogue to what the artist had experienced in the maisons closes of the Rue des Moulins, the Rue d'Amboise and the Rue Joubert. 'They are women to my liking,' as he used to say cynically, and he often lived with them for weeks at a time during the years 1892 to 1895, a constant witness of their daily lives, of their suffering and intimacy. Attentively he noted their monotonous routine at the wash-stand, 'in the humble pose of bodily hygiene,' as Huysmans called it, at breakfast, waiting for customers or during the medical inspection. These places on the periphery of society seemed to him ideally suited for a social allegory, in which the 'unavoidable myth' could emerge, albeit in half-reflections, through images of transience and the attributes of Venus and Luxuria.

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Near mint condition except for one light dent. Kept in portfolio - never framed.