Jane Avril (1899)
1899 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Boston Public Library
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About this work
- Artist
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901)
- Year
- 1899
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Original size
- 56 × 36 cm
- Collection
- Boston Public Library (Print Department)
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
Jane Avril, the dancer Toulouse-Lautrec drew more than any other performer, twists in a long black dress with a snake coiling around it, her red hair thrown back and her hands raised to her hat. This was the last poster he made for her, in 1899, and it was never used: Avril's career was winding down and the design, with its fin-de-siècle serpent, was thought too strange. Printed by H. Stern in Paris in only a small edition, it is now one of the rarest of his posters. Compared with the 1893 Jardin de Paris poster, the line is looser and the whole figure is given over to a single twisting movement. The impression reproduced is in the Boston Public Library.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A single twisting black figure on cream, for a dressing room, hallway or studio at 16×24 or 24×36 in thin black, no mat. It reads well against a white or blush wall and makes a pair with the earlier Jane Avril (Jardin de Paris).
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1899)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, living room, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
Shipping & returns
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About this design
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
The full-bleed edition
The same plate printed edge-to-edge, filling the whole sheet — bold and immersive.
