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| HENRI TOULOUSE-LAUTREC Jane Avril Can-Can 6.5" sculpture | | |  | | Now available in the United States and shipping worldwide through BigBlocky!, these amazing sculptures from Europe's Parastone Mouseion collection are very unique, beautifully rendered and constructed of fine collectible quality resin.
This is a 6.5 inch tall sculpture of a figure from the 1893 poster by Art Nouveau artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. The lower image at left is the original lithograph from which this sculpture was based.
The worldly, eccentric dancer Jane Avril (La Mïlinite) requested Toulouse-Lautrec to design a poster for her performance at the Jardin de Paris. Jane is dancing a provocative can-can, captured in a silhouette framing of the double bass player. This lithograph shows the first features of the famous Art Nouveau style.
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| Material : Collectible quality resin with hand-painted color details, matte and glossy finish. | | Included : Full color card with image of original artwork. Description card about artist and artwork. Both cards are in four languages. | | Dimensions : 6.5 in. x 3 in. x 2.5 in. | | Condition : New in box |  | | | | | | About Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) | | The young count Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), who was quite small and suffered from a limp, was not born to a traditional military career. His parents recognized his talent for drawing at an early stage and he was allowed to receive artistic schooling. After a romantic/academic education, Henri soon felt attracted to the city life of Paris with her avant-gardists such as Cézanne and, more especially, Degas. He felt at home in Montmartre, with its humor, irony and its fancy dress parties so typical of the fin de siècle. He was a regular customer of the cabaret bar "Le Mirliton" and for its owner, the singer Aristide Bruant, he designed wall paintings and magazine covers. It was the poster for 'Le Moulin Rouge', though, which brought him instant fame in 1891. He executed his compositions, with their unusual perspective and radical cut-outs, in contrasting color schemes and flamboyant style. After a number of very productive years Toulouse-Lautrec appears to lose his grip on life. In 1893 his friend and housemate Dr. Gourges got married and for the first time in his life he has to stand on his own two feet. Alcohol increasingly takes over his life and he becomes withdrawn and paranoid. A short stay in a psychiatric clinic is of no help and two years later he dies in his parental home, the Chateau de Marlome in Albi, at the age of thirty-six. | | | | | Please visit our About Me page for terms and conditions regarding your purchase. | | | | Buy with confidence as BigBlocky! is a PayPal Verified eBay PowerSeller. | | |  | | |  |
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