Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Sarah J. S. Suzuki

Illuminates a wide range of printmaking techniques, featuring short overviews and illustrations of more than 130 works from The Museum of Modern Art's print collection

Selections from the Museum of Modern Art

What is a Print?

Christophe Cherix

Kim Conaty

Catalog of an exhibition held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Feb. 19-May 14, 2012.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Though deeply engaged with painting and drawing, Toulouse-Lautrec's lasting contribution to artistic practice was as a graphic artist. Through his prints and posters, advertisements, and contributions in reviews and magazines, he brought the language of the late-nineteenth-century French avant-garde to a broad public. He ushered in the first print boom of the modern era; taking advantage of lithography's new potential for colour and scale, he made both posters for the streets of Paris and prints for the new bourgeois collector's living room. During his short career, he created more than 350 prints and 30 posters, as well as lithographed theatre programmes and covers for books and sheet music. The Museum of Modern Art's collection of this material is stellar, encompassing over 100 prints and posters, his most important book projects, and many magazines, journals and other examples of printed ephemera. Featuring an overview essay by Sarah Suzuki, Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at MoMA, this publication presents thematically organized groupings of Toulouse-Lautrec's prints from the Museum's collection, each accompanied by an illuminating essay on the theme.

Sarah J. S. Suzuki

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