Moulin Rouge – La Goulue
The poster that made Toulouse-Lautrec famous and turned the street into a gallery.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec made the poster for the Moulin Rouge nightclub in 1891. With flat areas of colour, strong outlines and cropped figures borrowed from Japanese woodblock prints, it differed from everything else on the streets of Paris.
The poster was pasted up all over the city and made Lautrec famous. It shows how art and advertising met around 1890.
Materials: Colour lithograph on paper
Manufacture: Printed in several colours from lithographic stones, on several sheets joined together.
The dancer La Goulue in the centre, with a white petticoat.
The dark silhouette in the foreground, cutting across the picture.
The text as part of the image, repeated like a cry.