Toulouse-Lautrec:
Au Pied de l'Echafaud
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THIS poster advertised the serialization in the magazine Le Matin of the memoirs of the Abbé Faure, entitled At the foot of the Gallows. He was a chaplain at the prison of La Roquette and witnessed thirty-eight executions. One of Lautrec's rare nods to social realism, the poster's stark composition and blood-red/black color scheme underscore its grisly subject.
