Polaire
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
1898, published 1930
Medium
Lithograph on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 34.4 × 22.8 cm (13 9/16 × 9 in.); Sheet: 43.2 × 31.1 cm (17 1/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
21103
About the Artist
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec · 1864–1901
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa (1864-1901) was a French Post-Impressionist painter, printmaker, and illustrator whose innovative poster designs revolutionized graphic art and advertising in late 19th-century Paris. Born into an aristocratic family at Albi in southern France, Toulouse-Lautrec's privileged lineage traced back to the Counts of Toulouse and extended uninterrupted to th...