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Indianapolis Museum of Art
Litografia - 190x116 - 1891
Moulin Rouge: La Goulue is a poster by French artist Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec. It is a colour lithograph from 1891, probably printed in about 3,000 copies,
advertising the famous dancers La Goulue and "No-Bones"
Valentin, and the new Paris dance hall Moulin Rouge. Although most examples were pasted as
advertising posters and lost, surviving examples are in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of
Art and many other institutions.
Moulin
Rouge: La Goulue is a bold, four-color lithograph depicting the famous cancan dancer La Goulue and her flexible partner Valentine le
désossé made to advertise the popular French club, Moulin Rouge. Their audience
is reduced to silhouettes in order to focus attention on the performers and
evoke the Japanese art then in vogue. The triple repetition of the club's name
draws the focus down to the central figure of the poster, La Goulue herself. The
stark white of her petticoats, depicted with just a few lines on the white
paper, epitomizes Toulouse-Lautrec's boldly simplistic style, a sharp break
from the text-heavy posters of the day.
The Moulin Rouge had opened two years
earlier, in 1889, and instantly established itself as a Montmartre landmark. It was renowned for the elasticity
of its young dancers, both physically and morally; police officers made
periodic checks to ensure that they were all wearing underwear. However, the
poster by Jules Chéret advertising the club's
delights was relatively subdued, so the director Charles Zidler hired the young (only 27 years old)
Toulouse-Lautrec to create a more vibrant poster.
Although Moulin Rouge: La Goulue was Toulouse-Lautrec's first
attempt at lithography, such was his grasp of the medium's possibilities that
it was an immediate sensation. 3000 copies spread around Paris captivated the
public with their eye-catching design, bold colors, and innovative,
Japanese-inspired use of silhouettes. Cannily focusing on the dancer La Goulue,
whose energetic kicks and insatiable appetites had made her famous, gave the
poster an additional boost in popularity. But it was Toulouse-Lautrec's own
artistic skill that made him a star overnight.
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