I have a print of Divan Japonaise by Toulouse-Lautrec and need help identifying it.?

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It measures about 29 1/8" x 38 1/8". On the bottom right in small print reads: IMP EDW ANCOURT, PARIS. There is no copyright date, etc so I'm tring to figure out who printed it & when. I've searched poster with above info but 0 results come back. Other posters like this have all been of different dimensions. Some near this size has the name of poster & artist across the bottom very large like the poster was sold in a gift shop, etc. This one does not. It's gorgeous and proudly adorns the wall of my small film office but people ask about it and I have to shrug

Answer 1

I got a hit on "Edw Ancourt" immediately. It's the printing firm that made most of his posters. "IMP" stands for "impression" (as in to run through a press).

http://www.sdmart.org/lautrec/printing_hist.html

However, yours is not the same size as the Divan Japonaise poster at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=5104&coll_keywords=Toulouse+Lautrec&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1

Keep in mind that the originals were stone lithographs, so making multiple sizes of the same image wasn't really practical (and barely possible). In other words, there's probably only one "right" size.

If you're wanting to know if yours is an authentic Toulouse-Lautrec poster published during his lifetime, I only know that there aren't many real ones around. The first link will tell you that most of the posters were pasted onto the sides of buildings, and were either scraped off or weathered off later.
Look closely at the surface of the paper and see if you find a regular pattern of tiny colored dots. That would tell you if it's a photographic reproduction.

If you don't see the dots, it might be worth getting it appraised. It would also be helpful to ask for information at the place were you purchased it, or from the person you acquired it from.

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I have a print of Divan Japonaise by Toulouse-Lautrec and need help identifying it.?
It measures about 29 1/8" x 38 1/8". On the bottom right in small print reads: IMP EDW ANCOURT, PARIS. There is no copyright date, etc so I'm tring to figure out who printed it & when. I've searched poster with above info but 0 results come back. Other posters like this have all...

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Divan Japonais

Answer 4

Hi! Here are five museum housed documented originals with which to compare as well as originals sold at Sotheby's. They are all approximately 31" x 24".: This (and his other gorgeous works) have been reproduced for years and by so many firms. I hope that this helps.

" Lithograph in four colors: yellow, red, green, and black, 31 1/8 x 23 1/4 in. (79.05 x 59.05 cm) with signature of the artist lower right (script:T-Lautrec):
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
divan japonais (w. p11, d. 348, a. 15)
Lithographic poster printed in colours, 1893, printed by Ancourt, Paris, on wove paper, with margins, the yellow slightly attenuated, two vertical repaired tears in lower image (the longest measuring 170mm), upper right corner of sheet lost, other small losses and repairs along edges, some extending into image, laid down on two sheets of Japan paper, linen backed. Sheet 793 by 607mm; 31D by 23" - Sotheby's
Museum of Modern Art -MOMA: http://moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3ADE%3AI%3A2%7CG%3AHO%3AE%3A1&page_number=1&template_id=1&sort_order=1
San Diego Museum of Fine Art: http://www.sdmart.org/lautrec/DivanJap.html
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=22260;type=101
Cornell University: Johnson Museum
The Mint Museum:

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Where to go to see if it is not a copy