NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART TO OPEN
EXHIBITION SHOP FOR
“TOULOUSE-LAUTREC AND MONTMARTRE”

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Washington, DC—The glamour and spirit of the Parisian entertainment district of Montmartre in the late 1800s has inspired an array of educational items and gifts for the special Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre exhibition shop. The shop will be located on the concourse level of the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, located at Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, from March 20 through June 12, 2005, while the exhibition is on view. The exhibition is located on the mezzanine and upper levels of the Gallery’s East Building.

Specialty Items
Exhibition merchandise includes a variety of paper products, such as reproductions of images by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Chéret, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, and others; posters; boxed note cards; wall and engagement calendars; a book of postcards; a 1,000-piece puzzle; and a large selection of books for all ages. Gift items include ladies’ long black gloves inspired by legendary French chanteuse Yvette Gilbert; jewelry inspired by styles of the period; silk scarves and ties in various colors and designs; home accessories, such as pillows, magnets, coffee mugs, placemats, and coasters; and a small pewter statue of the popular dancer Loïe Fuller. A music CD includes the original recordings of Gilbert and Aristide Bruant, a cabaret star and club owner, who appeared often in paintings and posters by Toulouse-Lautrec. The National Gallery of Art’s documentary for the exhibition is available in DVD.

Exhibition Catalogue
The 308-page catalogue, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre, published by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The Art Institute of Chicago, in association with Princeton University Press, is lavishly illustrated with 370 color plates and 17 halftones. It is the first major book to present the artist’s oeuvre in the context of Montmartre’s lively art scene from roughly 1885 to 1901. The catalogue includes masterpieces by contemporaries Toulouse-Lautrec inspired or who inspired him—Degas, Van Gogh, Picasso, and others—as well as rarely seen illustrations, lithographs, photographs, and ephemera of the era. The book will be available for $60.00 in hardcover and $40.00 in softcover in the Gallery Shops, on the Gallery’s Web site at www.nga.gov/shop/shop.htm, or by calling 1-(800) 697-9350 or (202) 842-6002.

General Information

The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden are at all times free to the public. They are located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, and are open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Gallery is closed on December 25 and January 1. For information call (202) 737-4215 or the Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) at (202) 842-6176, or visit the Gallery's Web site at www.nga.gov.

Visitors will be asked to present all carried items for inspection upon entering the East and West Buildings. Checkrooms are free of charge and located at each entrance. Luggage and other oversized bags must be presented at the 4th Street entrances to the East or West Building to permit x-ray screening and must be deposited in the checkrooms at those entrances. For the safety of visitors and the works of art, nothing may be carried into the Gallery on a visitor's back. Any bag or other items that cannot be carried reasonably and safely in some other manner must be left in the checkrooms. Items larger than 17 x 26 inches cannot be accepted by the Gallery or its checkrooms.

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NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART TO OPEN EXHIBITION SHOP FOR “TOULOUSE-LAUTREC AND MONTMARTRE”

NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART TO OPEN
EXHIBITION SHOP FOR
“TOULOUSE-LAUTREC AND MONTMARTRE”