Monsieur Boileau at the Café Size:70×100 cm Utagawa Yoshitsuya (歌川 芳艶

Utagawa Yoshitsuya (歌川 芳艶

and the aesthetic

Creator: Watanabe Shōtei

Creator: Kamisaka Sekka

textile designer

Monsieur Boileau at the Café Size:70×100 cm Utagawa Yoshitsuya (歌川 芳艶Title: Monsieur Boileau at the Caf Creator: Henri de Toulouse Lautrec Date: 1893 Place of origin: France Clevelands 1925 purchase of this work by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec marked the first acquisition of one of the artists drawings by a museum in the United States. Its subject, Monsieur Boileau, was a gossip columnist known to drink heavily at Le Mirliton, a nightclub. Here, saturated, acidic tones evoke the rooms gas lamps and thinned oil paint