If you were a Parisian in the 1890s then you would have noticed large street posters whose evocative images of stars enticed you to visit the nightclubs of Montmartre. Through this bold new form of ...

Montmartre, Moulin Rouge, Folies Bergère, absinthe, the can-can, Chat Noir, the fin-de-siècle (end of the century) devil may care, bohemian, sexy, sleep all day, party all night Paris of our ...

Showgirls in fishnet stockings and ruffled skirts kicking their legs to the sky flanked by musicians strumming their instruments. This is just some of the imagery captured in the artwork of French ...

The 150 prints and drawings featured in the Allentown Art Museum’s summer exhibition, “Toulouse Lautrec and His World,” show that the little man from Paris was a master of the accouterment. Henri de ...

No offense to your college dorm room, but it’s got nothing on the walls of the Museum of Fine Art’s Gund Gallery. All spring and summer long, they’re playing host to a retrospective of French painter ...

Picture late 19th century Paris and a cat poster might come to mind, advertising a product that many will forget. After all, the image’s style is the important thing: clean lines, black ink. People ...

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When examining the nature of contemporary culture, it becomes evident that much of the current global structure has its roots in late 19th-century France, where the ideas of marketability and mass ...

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa was born on November 24, 1864, in the provincial town of Albi in southwestern France. His father, Alphonse, le Comte de Toulouse-Lautrec, and mother, ...

An 1896 poster commissioned to promote a photographer named Paul Sescau isn’t the largest or the most dramatic lithograph in the Phillips Collection’s exhibition “Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Toulouse-Lautrec’s work is so ubiquitous it’s sometimes difficult to see. You might meet La Goulue or Jane Avril at a ...

WHEN HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC was born, in 1865, the new technology of photography was rapidly developing. By the time he was an art student in Paris in the late 1880s, new box cameras had made ...