Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
dal 28/7/2006 al 21/10/2006
Segnalato da
28/7/2006
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
City Art Center, Edinburgh
and the Art Nouveau Poster. The exhibition is drawn primarily from the collections of the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Jersey. In addition, rare works are on loan from the private collection of the descendants of Edmond Sagot, the first art dealer to appreciate the aesthetic significance of poster art and who was instrumental in the development of the fin-de-siecle Postermania.
The City Art Centre is the only Scottish venue to host Toulouse- Lautrec and the Art Nouveau Poster. This ground-breaking exhibition includes 140 French, Belgian and Spanish posters, which range from the early 19th century to the end of the Art Nouveau period.
It presents the cultural and aesthetic influence of Toulouse-Lautrec and his contemporaries on poster art at the end of the 19th century. It brings together celebrated images by Toulouse-Lautrec, including his large 1891 poster for the Moulin Rouge, and works by other leading artists including Jules Che'ret, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard and Alphonse Mucha.
The exhibition is drawn primarily from the collections of the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Jersey. In addition, rare works are on loan from the private collection of the descendants of Edmond Sagot, the first art dealer to appreciate the aesthetic significance of poster art and who was instrumental in the development of the fin-de-sie'cle Postermania.
The exhibition includes gouache and watercolour studies for posters, printed theatre, circus and cabaret programmes, and early advertising for a variety of commercial products.
The exhibition was organized by the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Opening: July, 29, 2006
City Art Center
2 Market Street - Edinburgh
Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm Sun 12pm - 5pm