Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901 )La Revue blanche. Poster. 1895. Lithograph. [935 x 1290]. Delteil 355; Wittrock P16. Printed in colors. A very fine proof on thin buff vellum, in two pieces, formerly cloth-backed. Small losses in the upper and lower left corners. Heavy foxing and oxidation at the lower right edge of the folio. All margins. "The Revue Blanche was founded in Liege in 1889 by the Natanson brothers, who later moved to Paris. It became a place of debate and promoted the Nabis painters, the neo-impressionists and Art Nouveau. Humor and festive spirit, freedom, commitment and creativity, pacifism, secularism and globalization are the values it defends. [...] Lautrec's most famous work for the magazine is not an illustration, but a poster: it depicts Misia, the wife of Thadée Natanson, muse and patron of many musicians and painters. The framing truncates the image and suggests movement; Misia is moving on a skating rink and the shape of her dress flaring out as well as the gesture of her left arm stretched backwards suggest that she is sliding. The Revue Blanche disappeared in 1903. It is the end of an incredible literary, artistic and political adventure to which the most dissenting intellectuals of the time contributed." (www.grandpalais.fr).