Cycle Michael
<p>Lautrec was an enthusiastic fan of sporting events, emphasizing the late 19th-century French bicycling fervor in two posters (see <a href="https://www.artic.edu/artworks/180664">2015.278</a>). Both were meant to advertise a new bicycle part to a ready audience of some half-million riders. However, the artist’s subtle preliminary version seen here was rejected, and the lithograph was never produced in more than one color. Instead Lautrec personally funded an edition of 200 monochrome impressions.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1896
- Dimensions
- Image: 83.5 × 115 cm (32 7/8 × 45 5/16 in.); Sheet, sight: 88 × 126.5 cm (34 11/16 × 49 13/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist
Painting
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Montfa, known as Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator. His immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce popular works of art from decadent affairs.
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Record
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- 1896
- Dimensions
- Image: 83.5 × 115 cm (32 7/8 × 45 5/16 in.); Sheet, sight: 88 × 126.5 cm (34 11/16 × 49 13/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1896-030101
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified