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Loie Fuller
Miss Loïe Fuller
Loie Fuller
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864–1901)
1893
Medium/Technique
Color lithograph, printed from four stones with gold and silver powder
Dimensions
Image: 36.8 x 26.8 cm (14 1/2 x 10 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 38 x 27.8 cm (14 15/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 38 x 27.8 cm (14 15/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Florence S. Gerstein
Accession Number2005.243
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
The American dancer Loïe Fuller created a sensation in Paris in the 1890s with her highly inventive choreography, whipping about with wands voluminous draperies on a glass floor illuminated by colored electric lights. She became the very symbol of the Art Nouveau. Iridescence and billowing motion is conveyed differently in each impression of the print, as each was prepared with varied inkings of the lithographic stones and the application by hand of metallic powders.
Catalogue Raisonné
Wittrock 017; Delteil 039
InscriptionsVerso lower right in graphite pencil: LD 39
Verso lower right in graphite pencil: 56.138
Verso lower right in graphite pencil: 56.138
ProvenanceFlorence S. Gerstein (b. 1926 - d. 2004), Boston; 2005, bequest of Florence S. Gerstein to the MFA. (Accession date: April 27, 2005)