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Divan Japonais

Poster
1892 (Designed and made)
Artist/Maker
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec (artist)
Place of origin
Paris (Made)

This poster advertises the café-concert Divan Japonais in Paris. Using flat areas of colour, outline and sinuous silhouette, the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) depicts the dancer Jane Avril and the critic Edouard Dujardin in the foreground, with the singer Yvette Guilbert on stage. With its 'oriental'-style decoration, the Divan Japonais was one of the many Paris haunts of Toulouse-Lautrec.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Posters
Object type
Poster
TitleDivan Japonais (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph
Paper
Lithographic Ink
Lithography
Brief description
Poster, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 'Divan Japonais', French; 1892.
Physical description
Depicts the interior of a café-concert. A singer is partially obscured in the top left-hand corner. An auburn-haired woman in a black dress sits in the foreground. A man stands behind her wearing a top hat and carrying a cane. An orchestra is partially visible.
Dimensions
  • Height: 809mm
  • Width: 617mm
Style
Post-Impressionist
Marks and inscriptions
  • H. T. Lautrec (Signed on stone bottom right hand corner)
  • Ed Fournier/Directeur (Lower left, written on the stone)
  • DIVAN JAPONAIS / 75 rue des Martyrs (Top right corner, written on the stone)
Subjects depicted
Entertainment
Singers
Orchestras (Ensembles)
Woman
Hats
Avril, Jane
Guilbert, Yvette
Dujardin, Edouard
Summary
This poster advertises the café-concert Divan Japonais in Paris. Using flat areas of colour, outline and sinuous silhouette, the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) depicts the dancer Jane Avril and the critic Edouard Dujardin in the foreground, with the singer Yvette Guilbert on stage. With its 'oriental'-style decoration, the Divan Japonais was one of the many Paris haunts of Toulouse-Lautrec.
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Coutts, Howard and Claire Jones Toulouse Lautrec and the art of the French Poster. Bowes Museum, 2004. 53 p., ill. ISBN 0954818202.
  • Nancy Ireson, ed. Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril. Beyond the Moulin Rouge London: The Courtauld Gallery, 2011. ISBN: 9781907372247.
  • Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1962
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
CIRC.549-1962

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Record createdJanuary 16, 2008
Record URL
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