Artwork Details
67 x 46-3/4 in.
Accession NumberGift of the Gamboliers
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PalettePurchased by Mary Quinn Sullivan [1877-1939], New York, New York, for The Gamboliers of Indianapolis, in 1932; {1} given to the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1936 (36.4). {1} See IMA Archives, folder on Gamboliers. For more information on this society which collected modern art and on Mary Quinn Sullivan, see the exhibition guide by Annette Schlagenhauff, Gifts of the Gamboliers, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2009.
The Moulin Rouge dance hall opened in Montmartre in 1889 and Toulouse-Lautrec was a regular from the beginning. For his first poster and for the first time in poster design, Toulouse-Lautrec featured the actual entertainers in the advertisement: La Goulue (the Glutton) dancing the can-can accompanied by her partner "No-Bones" Valentin.
No one in the fall of 1891 would have predicted that this ephemeral advertisement would become within days a collected item, within weeks the object of press reviews, within months the partner of paintings in avant-garde exhibitions, and within a year the internationally recognized symbol of 1890s Paris.
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Post-Impressionist Prints: Paris in the 1890's
Indianapolis Museum of Art
January 16, 1999 - April 11, 1999
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