Lithograph in colors, poster with letters.
Adriani 162/III. Wittrock P 21C (of D). Signed and monogrammed on the stone. One of ca. 1000 copies. On brownish poster paper. 62,1 x 79,2 cm (24,4 x 31,1 in), the full sheet.
Poster with the red letters that were not made by the hand of Toulouse-Lautrec.

Four dancers are depicted performing a dance for developed from the cancan and known as the quadrille naturaliste. This risqué dance, which showed not just a lot of leg, was an attraction at Paris and London music halls. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec reveals his consummate mastery of his medium in the arrangement of his dancers. In a composition designed to look provocative, he has zoomed in meaningfully to focus on details that have been reduced to make a suggestive impact in visual terms. The paratactic arrangement of the four legs, which all point to the text, is a brilliant idea of the kind only Toulouse-Lautrec could have come up with and realised. This visually attractive poster combines elegance and wit. In the statement it makes in composition and palette, it represents the standard of artistry that is characteristic of all Toulouse-Lautrec posters. [KD].