Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, rejecting the notion of…
1891 CE
"My poster is pasted today on the walls of Paris," the artist proudly declares.
Posters afford him the possibility of a widespread impact for his art, no longer restricted by the limitations of easel painting.
They also enhance the success he had enjoyed in the preceding year when his works were shown in Brussels at the Exposition des XX and in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants.