May Milton
1895 · Colour lithograph (poster) · Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
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About this work
- Artist
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901)
- Year
- 1895
- Medium
- Colour lithograph (poster)
- Original size
- 80 × 60 cm
- Collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris (department of Prints and Photography)
- Movement
- Post-Impressionism
The English dancer May Milton, in a long white dress with her hair in a blonde cloud, kicks one leg out against a flat blue ground, her name lettered in the same blue above her. Toulouse-Lautrec designed the poster in 1895 for her American tour, and it was printed in Paris by Ancourt; she was a friend of May Belfort, whose poster he made the same year as a companion piece. The white silhouette on a single colour is as spare as anything he made, and Picasso later pinned a copy of it on the wall of his studio, where it appears in his painting The Blue Room. The impression reproduced is in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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 white figure on a deep blue field, for a bedroom, hallway or study at 16×24 or 24×36 in thin black, no mat. It carries a white or pale blue wall and pairs with May Belfort, its red companion.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Post-Impressionism painting
- Era
- 19th century (1895)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- bedroom, hallway or entryway, study or library, living room, dining 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
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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.
