Jane Avril

Artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864 - 1901)

Date1893

MediumColor lithograph

DimensionsImage: 50 3/8 × 36 inches (127.95 × 91.44 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number62-34

Signed(stone, l.l.c.):" HTL" (stone, b.c.):"HTLautrec/ 93"

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Not on view

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Exhibition History

Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, April 18-June 2, 1968.

Posters and Modern Color Prints, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 5-December 29, 1985, no. 20, as Jane Avril.

Thirty Years of Print Purchases for the Permanent Collection, November 19-December 31, 1989, no. 50, as Jane Avril.

Graphic Masterworks from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 23-July 25, 1993, no cat., as Jane Avril.

Art on the Avenues: Posters from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 16-July 28, 1996, no. 23, as Jane Avril.

Inked in Time: Six Centuries of Printed Masterpieces, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 22-May 31, 1998, no cat., as Jane Avril.

Color and Line: Masterworks on Paper, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 5-November 11, 2007; February 26-August 10, 2014; February 23-July 30, 2017, no cat., as Jane Avril.

Gallery Label

Color lithography employs the same processes as traditional lithography, but separate stones and inks are used for each color. Additional effects could be created by layering colors of varying transparencies, seen here in the overlaid green and black that constitute the dark greenish hues around the border. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec also used a splatter technique when applying a greasy drawing fluid onto the stone, resulting in the gray mist that fills the foreground hand and musical instrument. The poster’s eye-catching effects and large scale successfully advertised both the subject and the artist.

Provenance

Édouard Kleinmann (active late 19^th century), 8, Rue de la Victoire, Paris, by 1893 [1];

With Main Street Gallery, Chicago;

With the Friends of Art Sales and Rental Gallery, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, by May 22, 1962;

Purchased from the Friends of Art Sales and Rental Gallery by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1962.

NOTES:

[1] Kleinmann printed this lithograph and “Depot Chez Kleinmann/8, Rue de la Victoire” is inscribed on the work.

Published References

Loys Delteil, Le peintre-graveur illustré (xix et xx siècles), vol. 10, H. de Toulouse-Lautrec (Paris: Loys Delteil, 1920), no. 345 I/II, unpaginated, (repro.), as Jane Avril.

Jean Adhémar, Toulouse-Lautrec: His Complete Lithographs and Drypoints (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1965), no. 12 I/II.

Toulouse-Lautrec, 1864-1901, exh. cat. (Montreal: Museum of Fine Arts, 1968).

Posters and Modern Color Prints, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1985), 8, as Jane Avril.

Wolfgang Wittrock, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Prints, trans. and ed. Catherine E. Kuehn (London: Sotheby's Publications, 1985), no. P 6B.

Götz Adriani, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Complete Graphic Works; A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1988), no. 11 I/II.

Thirty Years of Print Purchases for the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1989), 11, as Jane Avril.

Art on the Avenues: Posters from the Permanent Collection, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 7, as Jane Avril.

George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 180-82, 298, (repro.), as Jane Avril.

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