Please note: There is some damage to the top of the dust jacket on the front and rear. It is 100 years since Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, then an aspiring young painter, was commissioned to produce his first colour lithograph, a poster for the Moulin Rouge. During the 1890s, he went on to create more than thirty magnificent posters, today acknowledged as among the greatest achievements in graphic art and the most expressive and indelible images of this glamorous decade. Through his daringly bold use of line and colour, and using the power of the medium to its full, Lautrec simplified his subjects to striking silhouettes, verging on caricature, yet brilliantly and dispassionately conveyed their spirit with a strength that has never been rivalled. His achievement also lay in his consummate ability to portray in his poster oeuvre the broad spectrum of life in late 19th century Paris, not only its role as the world's pleasure capital, but its dynamism as a flourishing trade, artistic and l