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TITLE:
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Aristide Bruant, Dans son Cabaret
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WORK DATE:
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1893
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CATEGORY:
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Prints and Multiples
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MATERIALS:
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Lithograph. Key stone printed in olive-green, color stones in black, red and brown. Printed by Imp. Charles Verneau, Paris
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MARKINGS:
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First printing with later overprinting without text at bottom, but with "Chansonnier de Montmartre" at upper left.
New variant
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SIZE:
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h: 940 x w: 1346 cm / h: 370.1 x w: 529.9 in
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STYLE:
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Post-Impressionism
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PRICE*:
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DESCRIPTION:
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Commissioned by Aristide Bruant
EXCEPTIONALLY RARE
This is the rarest state of this poster, being mentioned only by Adhemar (his third state). As with the first state, it is also printed by Verneau (other states having been the work of Ancourt). It advertises a bi-monthly review of "Singers of Montmartre." And no singer of that place or time was better known that Bruant, a strong, forceful, in many ways vulgar entertainer of intimate cabarets-the kind of places where fashionable society went "slumming" for their thrills. Lautrec catches this brutal quality of the performer and the disdain with which he treated his audiences by having him show us the broad of his back, with the red scarf forming an exclamation point. The pose itself thus makes a complete, self-contained statement.
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LITERATURE:
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Wittrock P9, Adriani 12, Delteil 348, Adhemar 15, Bodelsen p. 10, Dortu A. 205
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