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Divan Japonais
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, born 1864 - died 1901 - Enlarge image
Divan Japonais
- Object:
Poster
- Place of origin:
Paris, France (printed)
- Date:
1892 (printed)
- Artist/Maker:
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, born 1864 - died 1901 (artist)
Edw. Ancourt (printers (people)) - Materials and Techniques:
Colour lithograph
- Museum number:
CIRC.272-1964
- Gallery location:
Europe & America 1800-1900, room 101
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.

