Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) La Revue blanche. Poster. 1895. Lithograph. [920 x 1271]. Delteil 355; Wittrock P16. Printed in color. A very fine proof on thin buff vellum, formerly cloth-backed. A small gap filled at left foot. A small tear (summarily reattached) under the fur collar at left. Full margins. "La Revue Blanche was founded in Liège in 1889 by the Natanson brothers, who later moved to Paris. It became a forum for debate, promoting 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 on a skating rink, and the shape of her flaring dress and the gesture of her left arm stretched backwards suggest that she is gliding. La Revue Blanche disappeared in 1903. It marked the end of an incredible literary, artistic and political adventure to which the most dissenting intellectuals of the day had contributed." (www.grandpalais.fr).