Chéret, Toulouse-Lautrec, Steinlen, Grasset
The Masters
Moulin Rouge, the Chat Noir, and the decade Paris made the street a gallery.
Toulouse-Lautrec’s Moulin Rouge (1891), Steinlen’s Chat Noir (1896), Grasset, pre-1931 Mucha (Gismonda, JOB), and pre-1931 Cappiello. Post-1930 Cappiello joins the denylist beside late Cassandre.
1891–1929 · France · Paris
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La Loïe Fuller at the Folies-Bergère — Jules Chéret, 1897
The dancer as pure flame.
Moulin Rouge — La Goulue
The poster that made lithography an avant-garde weapon.
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Tournée du Chat Noir
The black cat that became a whole neighborhood’s brand.
Gismonda — Alphonse Mucha, 1894
The poster that invented "Le Style Mucha" overnight.
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JOB Cigarette Papers — Alphonse Mucha, 1896
The smoker as a Byzantine saint, hair turned to smoke.
Lait Pur Stérilisé — Steinlen, 1894
A milk advertisement, and a whole family of cats.
Chocolat Klaus — Leonetto Cappiello, 1903
A green horse and rider, selling chocolate like a circus act.
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France-Champagne — Pierre Bonnard, 1891
The poster that made Toulouse-Lautrec want to make posters.
Exposition Eugène Grasset au Salon des Cent, 1894
The designer, announcing his own show.
Du soleil dans un verre... Cognac Monnet
Cappiello pours the sun itself into a brandy glass -- a 1927 lithograph in molten orange.
Ambassadeurs — Yvette Guilbert, Tous les soirs
Yvette Guilbert on the Ambassadeurs bill, drawn tall and narrow to fit a Paris column.
Affiches Charles Verneau — "La Rue"
Steinlen's 1896 street parade for the printer Verneau — a whole Paris pavement stretched life-size across a wall.
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Aperitivo digestivo Fernet-Branca
Cappiello's 1911 Fernet-Branca poster, printed in Paris by Vercasson, still selling bitterness as spectacle.
Le Petit Sou, journal de défense sociale
A newspaper poster from the artist who spent his career drawing the people it claimed to defend.
Aristide Bruant dans son cabaret (de profil)
Black cape, red scarf, broad hat in profile — the silhouette that turned a singer into a logo.
Indispensable aux fumeurs — Cachou Lajaunie
A 1906 lithograph pitching liquorice pastilles to smokers — 140 by 99 centimetres of pure Cappiello nerve.
Jane Avril — Jardin de Paris
Jane Avril mid-kick at the Jardin de Paris, framed by the neck of a double bass.
Caudieux
Lautrec's café-concert comic Caudieux barrels across the stage, all bulk and momentum, signed with the artist's monogram.
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Chocolat mexicain Masson, 91 rue de Rivoli, Paris
Grasset's 1892 chocolate poster, in the lettering variant that carries the 91 rue de Rivoli address.
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Jeanne d'Arc — Sarah Bernhardt
Grasset armours Sarah Bernhardt as Joan of Arc — stained-glass outlines, banner and blade, in the model the actress herself approved.
Absinthe Robette
A translucent-robed figure lifts a glass of green absinthe inside a halo of curling Art Nouveau line.
Savon Cristel, Gosselies — savon mou, garanti pur
Soft soap sold with Art Nouveau grandeur — Privat-Livemont turns a Gosselies detergent into a lithographic reverie.
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L'Escarmouche, journal illustré hebdomadaire
Ibels advertises a short-lived 1893 satirical weekly whose contributor list reads like a Nabis roll call.
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Divan Japonais, 75 rue des Martyrs
A black-sheathed woman watches the cabaret stage while the singer above her is cropped clean off at the neck.