$75 · Vintage Toulouse-Lautrec scarf

Stunning Vintage Scarf, 75 Rue Des Martyrs, 1893 by Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec, Divan Japonais. Large-approx 34” square. Excellent condition. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 - 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 1800s yielded a collection of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times. He was drawn to Montmartre, the area of Paris famous for its bohemian lifestyle and the haunt of artists, writers, and philosophers. Toulouse-Lautrec - along with Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin - is among the most well-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period. The Divan Japonais was a café, located in Paris at 75 rue des Martyrs It was opened as a café in 1883 by the poet Jehan Sarrazin, ten years after being turned into a coffee concert by Édouard Fournier. It was decorated inside in a vaguely Japanese style: painted silk panels lacquered furniture, bamboo and lamp posts. Its name probably derives from a verse of Mallarmé. It was one of the most popular places for Bohemians, and the singer Yvette Guilbert achieved her first successes there.