A black-cloaked figure turns away, an orange scarf at his neck

A man in a wide-brimmed black hat and a long black coat is seen entirely from behind, his silhouette filling the sheet against a plain tan ground. An orange scarf shows at his collar and a strip of orange lining shows at his hip pocket. Both arms are bent, hands out of sight behind him, and his legs in black trousers end in black knee-high boots. Orange lettering beside him advertises the singer Aristide Bruant at the Mirliton cabaret.

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) made the poster an art form. From 1891 his lithographs for the Moulin Rouge, Aristide Bruant, Jane Avril and the Divan Japonais turned Montmartre's performers into silhouettes and flat planes of colour learned from Japanese prints, and they were pasted across Paris by the thousand. He drew the cabarets, circuses and brothels of the city with unsentimental affection. His prints are held by the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec in Albi, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Museum of Modern Art.

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