Glaser created this poster for the Nouveau Salon des Cent, held at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2001; he was among the 100 major graphic designers from 24 countries around the world commissioned to produce 100 posters for this exhibition commemorating the centennial of the death of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It was officially intended to demonstrate the vitality and importance of the poster and to encourage future generations of graphic designers. The original Salon des Cent, a commercial art exhibition offering posters and prints for sale, had been founded in Paris in 1894 by the avant-garde journal La Plume. Toulouse-Lautrec had been involved in many of the exhibitions and had designed a poster promoting one of them in 1895. Glaser’s simple composition is based on a self-portrait drawing by the French artist and incorporates several typically subversive details: each line of the title is shadowed again beneath the original one and the signature at lower right reads “Toulouse Glaser.”