*Image is in 3 sheets.This is the complete three-sheet version of Moulin Rouge”. It is very possibly Lautrec%27s finest poster and in almost every way his most spectacular one. Perhaps more incredibly, it is his first poster and his first lithograph. In color and design, it marked an entirely new direction for the artist.Although Lautrec produced only 30 posters in his lifetime, he is considered %27the master of the poster,%27 For sheer mastery of the color lithographic process; for his clear understanding of the different needs of poster from painting; for the brilliance of his colors, the uses of contrasts, the fine sense of composition; for the strong, sometimes compassionate, and always compelling rendering of his subjects – for all these and more, we owe him the title of master of this medium. There is a clarity of composition, which can only derive from a clarity of concept. His reputation was that he would stride into the printer%27s workshop, knowing exactly the outcome he sought, and determined to impose that fully on the artisans until he got it.The focus of attention is Louise Weber, “La Goulue” (“The Glutton”) and although she is not stage front, the paper-white swirling petticoat contrasted with the black silhouettes of the onlookers focuses our attention to her. Framing the entire composition is the elegant lettering, the row of gas lamps, the perspective of the floor boards, and the imposing figure of her partner in the quadrille, Valentin, “le Desosse (“The Boneless”) in the forefront.”