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A man in profile wears a wide black hat and a bright orange-red scarf wound around his neck, set against a mustard-yellow ground at the left and deep blue at the right. He grips a wooden cane in a black glove, his dark cloak filling the lower half of the sheet. A black silhouette of a figure in a peaked cap stands in the blue panel behind him. Cream lettering outlined in blue names the Ambassadeurs cabaret and its performer, Aristide Bruant.
The singer Aristide Bruant, a friend of Lautrec, insisted that the artist design the poster for his 1892 appearance at the Ambassadeurs in Paris. According to the Victoria and Albert Museum, the director of the venue disliked its dramatic and uncompromising style, but Bruant said he would not perform unless it stayed. It was used outside the theatre and also inside, to decorate the proscenium arch. Edward Ancourt printed it in five colours.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) made the poster an art form. From 1891 his lithographs for the Moulin Rouge, Aristide Bruant, Jane Avril and the Divan Japonais turned Montmartre’s performers into silhouettes and flat planes of colour learned from Japanese prints, and they were pasted across Paris by the thousand. He drew the cabarets, circuses and brothels of the city with unsentimental affection. His prints are held by the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Museum of Modern Art.
Printed as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. Ships worldwide with free delivery to 30+ countries.
