Confetti

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Printer

Bella & de Malherbe

birth-death

Artist

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de

nationality

French

birth-death

1864-1901

Creation date

1894

Collection

Prints

Materials

color lithograph

Dimensions

22 3/8 x 15 1/2 in. (image and sheet)

Not Currently On View

Credit line

Gift of Phillipa Hughes

Accession number

2004.163

Provenance
Gallery Label

Provenance

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Marie Harriman Gallery, N.Y.; Margaret Camp, N.Y. (acquired about 1938); Phillipa Hughes, Indianapolis (niece, by descent)

Gallery Label

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In this joyful poster for confetti, Toulouse-Lautrec ingeniously uses his spatter technique to suggest the product. This new brand replaced plaster confetti, which was outlawed in Paris in 1892 after injuring several people during the Mardi Gras celebration.

The Bella brothers in London were not only leading paper manufacturers, but also supporters of the new art of the poster. Their Toulouse-Lautrec poster graced the cover of the catalogue they prepared for England's first poster exhibition in 1895.

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