STEINLEN: Cats

Multifaceted artist Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen—at once illustrator, painter, printmaker, and sculptor—spent most of his life in Montmartre, the picturesque epicenter of many avant-garde movements. During his career, which spanned the transition from art nouveau to modernism, Steinlen both produced highly accomplished fine art prints, and also illustrated politically liberal journals, song sheets, restaurant menus, books, and advertisements. His best-known work—the cabaret advertisement La Tournée du Chat Noir, the 1896 poster featuring a black cat silhouetted against a burnt orange background—is now an icon of the “poster craze” circa 1900.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website