May Milton
Poster
1895 (Designed and made)
1895 (Designed and made)
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May Milton was an English dancer who performed at Parisian café-concert halls towards the end of the nineteenth century. This poster depicts her as a rather fey young woman, swirling her skirts in an absent-minded manner. Milton commissioned the poster from the artist to advertise her American tour and it appears on the wall of a room in Picasso's painting of an interior, Blue Room (Washington DC: Phillips Collection), executed six years later.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | May Milton (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | colour lithograph |
| Brief description | By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: May Milton, French; 1895. Colour lithograph |
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| Production | Dated as for poster in the Musée de la Publicité |
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| Summary | May Milton was an English dancer who performed at Parisian café-concert halls towards the end of the nineteenth century. This poster depicts her as a rather fey young woman, swirling her skirts in an absent-minded manner. Milton commissioned the poster from the artist to advertise her American tour and it appears on the wall of a room in Picasso's painting of an interior, Blue Room (Washington DC: Phillips Collection), executed six years later. |
| Bibliographic reference | Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1964 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.273-1964 |
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| Record created | January 16, 2008 |
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