Signed in plate original lithographic poster for an exhibition of lithographic works produced by the Mourlot Atelier at the Seibu Department Stores Ltd in October 1984.

Produced in 1984 for Les Lithographies de l’Atelier Mourlot, this poster accompanied an exhibition held at Seibu Department Stores in Tokyo, a key venue in Japan’s post-war embrace of international modernism. During the 1970s and 1980s, Seibu played an influential role in presenting museum-level exhibitions of European modern art to a broad public, positioning printmaking at the intersection of commerce, culture, and education.

The image reproduces Léger’s 1948 lithograph Marie l’Acrobate, drawn from his long engagement with circus performers—a motif through which he explored balance, physicality, and the dynamism of modern life.

Atelier Mourlot was central to Léger’s print practice and to the elevation of lithography as a modern artistic medium. Although issued posthumously, this poster was printed from authorised imagery within the Mourlot tradition and signed in plate, with the signature integrated into the printing matrix itself. Its bold contours, simplified forms, and mechanical rhythm exemplify Léger’s graphic language while underscoring how lithography enabled the international dissemination of modernist ideas without sacrificing artistic authority.