Vertige de la couleur

L’estampe en France à la fin du XIXe siècle

Bringing together more than 180 works from our own holdings and others on loan, including a large number from a collector closely associated with the Musée Jenisch Vevey – Cabinet cantonal des estampes, this exhibition examines a remarkable chapter in the history of printmaking. At the end of the 19th century, Paris is gripped by a craze for anything and everything printed, from posters and portfolios to theatre programmes. Numerous publishers, artists and printers are involved with the medium. Colour is ubiquitous, and plays a role in artists’ redisco very of lithography almost a century after it was invented. The story is told with the help of many prints by artists including Pierre Bonnard, Paul Gauguin, Odilon Redon, Paul Signac, Édouard Vuillard and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.