Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s nearly abstract print distills the dazzling energy of American dancer Loïe Fuller’s performance, debuted in 1892 at the Folies-Bergères in Montmartre, Paris. To perform her Serpentine Dance, she donned a voluminous dress, manipulating the billowing fabric sleeves with long wooden poles she held in her hands. She danced as multicolored lights were projected onto the white of her costume. The artist depicts Fuller as if below her, watching her perform mid-dance, the sleeves of her dress ballooning around her, her small feet lifting off the stage as if she were floating. Though this print is a color lithograph, a medium invented for the mass reproduction of images, it is unique. In his most innovative print series of approximately 50 impressions, Toulouse-Lautrec endeavored to capture the changing colors of Fuller’s performance. To do so, the artist meticulously printed numerous lithographs from the same five stones, using various combinations of color ink to achieve distinct iterations of this scene. This impression of Miss Loïe Fuller is a rare trial proof, dedicated to Toulouse-Lautrec’s publisher Édouard Kleinman, and made prior to the edition. The impression stands out for the deep ocher and purple-red gradient and a remarkable gold shimmer, the effect of a metallic dusting that gives the final print its alluring gleam.