After the French Revolution, the vogue for prints in colour – expensive to make, and associated with the decadence of the ancien régime – abruptly disappeared, and for much of the 19th-century were derided in France as garish. This display at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown (11 December–6 March 2022) reveals how Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Chéret, Edouard Vuillard and other fin-de-siècle artists overcame these reservations to create the vivid images we most associate with the Parisian Belle Époque today. Find out more from the Clark’s website.
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Balcony with a Gilded Grotesque Mask (1894), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Vin Mariani (1894–95), Jules Chéret. Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Love: Twelve Lithographs in Color: Cover (1898), Maurice Denis. Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
In the Times of Harmony (c. 1896), Paul Signac. Clark Art Institute, Williamstown