Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
France 1864 – 1901
artist
La revue blanche
[Poster: La revue blanche]
1895 Print, Poster, planographic
Technique: brush, crayon and spatter lithograph, printed in four colours
Impression: edition between 1000 and 3000
Publisher: La revue blanche
Primary Insc: signed lower left, printed from the stone in green ink, 'HTL' monogram
dated lower left, printed from the stone in green ink, '95'
image 124.6 h x 90.8 w cm
sheet 128.2 h x 92.3 w cm
Cat Raisonné: Wittrock P16
Purchased 1975
Accession No: NGA 75.254
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Henri de TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
France 1864 – 1901
artist
La revue blanche
[Poster: La revue blanche]
1895 Print, Poster, planographic
Technique: brush, crayon and spatter lithograph, printed in four colours
Support: wove paper with linen backing
Impression: edition between 1000 and 3000
Publisher: La revue blanche
Place Published: Paris
Date Published: 1895
Edition Notes: printer: Ancourt
Primary Insc: signed lower left, printed from the stone in green ink, 'HTL' monogram
dated lower left, printed from the stone in green ink, '95'
Secondary Insc: inscribed upper right, printed from the stone in black ink, 'La revue /blanche /bi-mensuelle /le no. 60 cent. /12 francs par An /1 rue Lafitte /Paris
inscribed centre right, printed from the stone in blue ink, 'Charpentier et Fasquelle, editeurs /11, rue de Grenelle /Imp. Edw. Ancourt Paris'
image 124.6 h x 90.8 w cm
sheet 128.2 h x 92.3 w cm
Cat Raisonné: Wittrock P16
Purchased 1975
Accession No: NGA 75.254
Provenance:
- Purchased by the Australian National Gallery, from Joseph Brown Gallery, Melbourne, October 1975.
Exhibition History
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- 2012
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- Toulouse-Lautrec: Paris & the Moulin Rouge NGA
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- 2007
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- Birth of the Modern Poster NGA
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- 1999
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- Dance Hall Days: French Posters from Chéret to Toulouse-Lautrec NGA
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Cutting-edge technology is not just a characteristic of our age
La revue blanche was founded in Belgium in 1889 by brothers Alfred, Alexandre and Thadée Natanson, who then moved it to Paris in 1891. As a publication it was hugely influential on the intellectual and artistic life of the city. From July 1893 to December 1894 it published a print per month by the mainly Nabi artists Edouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, Paul Ranson, Pierre Bonnard and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, amongst others.
Both Bonnard and Toulouse-Lautrec also produced posters advertising the magazine itself. Toulouse-Lautrec’s commanding image is in fact an homage to Thadée Natanson’s polish-born wife, Misia, who was known as the ‘muse of the review’.
Text © National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2010
