20-5/8 x 16 in. (image and sheet)
watermarked, upper right: G. PELLET / T. LAUTREC | stamped in red, lower right: gp (Lugt 1191)
Gift of Phillipa Hughes
(Marie Harriman Gallery, N.Y.); Margaret Camp, N.Y. (acquired about 1938); Phillipa Hughes, Indianapolis (niece, by descent); donated to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2004
This poster advertised the exhibition and sale of a suite of eleven lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec. The same image served as the frontispiece to the suite and as its cover.
The title "Elles" is the French feminine form of "they" and described the contents of the suite, which dealt sympathetically and matter-of-factly with the daily life of Parisian prostitutes with whom Toulouse-Lautrec had shared lodgings. The understated treatment may have disappointed the publisher, Gustave Pellet, who specialized in erotica.
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