Original collotype print after the earlier Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec lithograph, from the limited edition portfolio "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art". Printed and published by Triton Press, Inc., New York in 1974. Sheet size: 17 x 14 inches; print size: 12-3/4 x 10 inches. Initialed in stone lower left, on Brandywine Cover paper. Shown on a black background. Mint condition new old stock from our immaculate copy of "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art". Collotype is a printing process invented in the mid-19th century famous for producing extremely fine detail and rich tonal gradation, using photograph negatives to create printing plates. Widely used for art books, postcards, and fine art reproductions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, today collotype is commercially uncommon, but still practiced by a few master printers. Collotype prints are admired by photographers, printmakers, and collectors for its unmatched subtlety. Toulouse-Lautrec found material for his amazing posters, paintings, and many lithographs in the music halls, cafés and bordellos of Paris. One of his finest lithographs in color is this dramatic representation of an entertainer at Les Ambassadeurs. Only Vuillard and Bonnard handled the lithographic stones with such consummate skill. His debt to the Japanese masters is an obvious one, in the use of startling contrasts of flat tones. But his unmistakable, independent genius.