Original Lennart Jirlow Poster Hommage a Fernand Mourlot, 1990

This is an original lithographic poster created in 1990 by Lennart Jirlow as part of the Hommage à Fernand Mourlot series — a tribute produced to commemorate the centenary of Fernand Mourlot's birth, bringing together thirteen artists who had worked at the legendary Parisian atelier to create an original image in his honor.

The subject chosen by Jirlow is uniquely intimate and historically significant — the colorful interior of the Mourlot studio in Paris itself. Where other artists in the series depicted flowers, figures, or abstract compositions, Jirlow turned his gaze to the workshop — the press, the stone, the light, the space where so much of the 20th century's greatest graphic art was born. It is a document as much as a homage.

Lennart Jirlow (born 1936) is one of Sweden's most celebrated painters — a colorist of exceptional warmth whose scenes of Parisian café life, circuses, and interiors brought him an international following, particularly in France and the United States. His long collaboration with the Ateliers Mourlot gave him deep access to the workshop's life, making his depiction of the studio all the more authentic and personal.

A singular piece in the Mourlot centenary series — the only image in the collection that depicts the atelier itself, painted by the artist who knew it best.