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Le Grand Siècle de l’Affiche · The Masters
Divan Japonais, 75 rue des Martyrs
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · Colour lithograph poster for the Divan Japonais cabaret, Ed. Fournier directeur, Paris, 1893; sheet 81 × 62.5 cm, 1893
What it is
Lautrec's 1893 poster for the Divan Japonais at 75 rue des Martyrs is a lesson in what to leave out: the seated figure in black dominates the sheet, the double-bass scroll cuts diagonally through the foreground, and the yellow-gloved singer on stage loses her head to the top edge.
Why it matters
The flat colour fields and severe cropping are borrowed straight from Japanese woodblock design. Printed by Edw. Ancourt in Paris using brush, crayon, crachis and transferred tone screens on a sheet 81 × 62.5 cm.
What to notice
A black-sheathed woman watches the cabaret stage while the singer above her is cropped clean off at the neck.
For one decade, the street was the gallery.
Provenance
- School
- Belle Époque — the Affiche (France)
- Designer
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Printer / house
- Imp. Edw. Ancourt, Paris
- Format
- Theater poster
- Poster published
- Colour lithograph poster for the Divan Japonais cabaret, Ed. Fournier directeur, Paris, 1893; sheet 81 × 62.5 cm, 1893
- Source
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie · ark:/12148/btv1b9012997m; RESERVEDC-3146-FT6
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 40x60" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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