Pin-Ups: Toulouse-Lautrec and the Art of Celebrity

• Explores Toulouse-Lautrec's art as a printmaker
• Unique perspective on the role of the poster and wider print distribution as a tool for communication and marketing
• How Toulouse-Lautrec's art helped to define and promote specific Paris hotspots of the belle époque and created the concept of celebrity status across Paris
• Accompanies an exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland in October 2018

Works by contemporaries such as Pierre Bonnard, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen and Jules Chéret also feature, and Lautrec's influence on British, and particularly Scottish, artists of the period will be explored. These include Walter Richard Sickert, Arthur Melville, John Duncan Fergusson, and William Nicholson.


An exhibition of this work, directly tied to the content of the book, will open at the National Galleries of Scotland on 6th October 2018.