May Belfort
- Medium
- Color lithograph on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 79.8 × 60 cm (31 7/16 × 23 5/8 in.); Sheet: 79.8 × 61.4 cm (31 7/16 × 24 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- Lithograph
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
posterred (color)printprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)lithograph
About
The scarlet dress of May Belfort splashes color onto this otherwise minimal composition. Clad in her signature oversized baby bonnet, the Irish actress clutches a black cat; Belfort often brought her cat to her performances and tended to “meow” her songs. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec intended for this poster to be hung, as it is in this gallery, next to his design for May Milton, an English performer who was Belfort’s close friend and rumored lover.
